Woman At The Window  : The Material Universe Of Rabindranath Tagore Through The Eyes Of Satyajit Ray
Woman At The Window  : The Material Universe Of Rabindranath Tagore Through The Eyes Of Satyajit Ray
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Book Summary
About the Book: Woman at the Window: The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore Through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray Cinematic conventions tend to be embedded in the patriarchal. The controlling look is always male, with women subjected to the gaze-voyeuristic, investigative, looking for titillation. Yet, Satyajit Rays cinema strove to steer clear of this. None of Rays women protagonists-most memorably in his adaptations of Tagores stories but true of other films too-can be reduced to a cliché. They defy every imaginable stereotyping. Woman at the Window attempts a completely new way of looking at Rays films in general, and his adaptations of Tagore in particular, through an
ISBN-13
9789351365020
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publishing Date
2017-05
Product Edition
1
Total Pages
356

Woman At The Window : The Material Universe Of Rabindranath Tagore Through The Eyes Of Satyajit Ray

by Shoma A Chatterji (Author),
Harpercollins (Publisher)
fictionfantasyyoung adultaward winning
Product Specifications
Book Summary
About the Book: Woman at the Window: The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore Through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray Cinematic conventions tend to be embedded in the patriarchal. The controlling look is always male, with women subjected to the gaze-voyeuristic, investigative, looking for titillation. Yet, Satyajit Rays cinema strove to steer clear of this. None of Rays women protagonists-most memorably in his adaptations of Tagores stories but true of other films too-can be reduced to a cliché. They defy every imaginable stereotyping. Woman at the Window attempts a completely new way of looking at Rays films in general, and his adaptations of Tagore in particular, through an
Book Specifications
ISBN-13
9789351365020
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publishing Date
2017-05
Product Edition
1
Total Pages
356