Andrew Robinson

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (eBook, ePUB)

The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in 2021: 'The films of Satyajit Ray are truly treasures of cinema, and everyone with an interest in film needs to see them.'

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye is the definitive biography, based on extensive interviews with Ray himself, his actors and collaborators, and a deep knowledge of Bengali culture. Andrew Robinson provides an in-depth critical account of each film in an astonishingly versatile career, from Ray's directorial debut Pather Panchali (1955) to his final feature Agantuk (1991). The third (centenary) edition includes new material: an epilogue, 'A century of Ray', about the nature of his genius; a wide-ranging conversation with Ray drawn from the author's interviews; and an updated comprehensive bibliography of Ray's writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350258518
• Artikelnr.: 62402611

Autorenporträt

Andrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.

Inhaltsangabe

SATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson Preface to the Second
Edition and Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations x Note on the
Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali xii Introduction: Getting to know Ray
1 A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family 2 Early Years 1921-40 3
Santiniketan and Tagore 1940-2 4 Commercial Artist and Critic 1943-50 5 The
Making of Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) 1950-5 6 The Apu
Trilogy 1955-9: Pather Panchali, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), The World of
Apu (Apur Sansar) 7 Comedies: The Philosopher's Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958,
Mahapurush (The Holy Man) 1964 8 The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958 9 The
Goddess (Devi) 1960 10 Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961 11 Kanchenjungha
1962 12 Abhijan (The Expedition) 1962 13 Mahanagar (The Big City) 1963 14
Charulata (The Lonely Wife) 1964 15 Kapurush (The Coward) 1965 16 Nayak
(The Hero) 1966 17 Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne
Bagha Byne) 1969, The Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980 18 Days
and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969 19 The Calcutta Trilogy:
The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha) 1971, The
Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975 20 Distant Thunder (Asani Sanket) 1973 21
Detective Films: Chiriakhana (The Zoo) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar
Kella) 1974, The Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978 22 The Chess Players
(Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977 23 Two 1964, Pikoo 1980 24 Deliverance (Sadgati)
1981 25 The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984 26 Documentaries: Sikkim
1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, Bala 1976, The Inner Eye
1972 27 Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India,
The Alien 28 Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer 29 'Some Aspects of
His Craft': Ray as Film-maker 30 'The Inner Eye' 31 Koh-i-noor: An Enemy of
the People (Ganasatru) 1989, Branches of the Tree (Sakha Prasakha) 1990,
The Stranger (Agantuk) 1991, and the Legacy of Satyajit Ray Epilogue: A
Century of Satyajit Ray, 1921-2021 A Conversation with Ray Glossary
Filmography Notes Bibliography Index