Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory | Postcolonialism and Film Theory

Reena Dube

ISBN 10: 1349523534 / ISBN 13: 9781349523535

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory | Postcolonialism and Film Theory | Reena Dube | Taschenbuch | Language, Discourse, Society | xix | Englisch | 2005 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9781349523535 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory | Postcolonialism and Film Theory
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349523534
• ISBN 13: 9781349523535
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 15D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 346 grams
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Synopsis

Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.

About the Author

REENA DUBE teaches film and literature in the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is the author, with Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, of Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History , forthcoming from SUNY Press in January (2005).