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Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s Films
Author:
Devapriya Sanyal
ISBN:
9789395474405
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
184 with 21 b/w illustrations
Size:
16 x 24 x 2 cm
Weight:
451 grams
Price:
INR
1395
1256.00
About the Book
The first comprehensive study of men and masculinity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray.
• Links Ray’s male characters with India’s national trajectory in its early post-independence years.• Interrogates the director’s standing as a national filmmaker.• Situates Ray within post-colonial filmmaking and realist cinema traditions.Satyajit Ray belonged to a category of filmmakers and artists from newly independent countries whose work was used to define ‘national culture’.
Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s Films
argues that a study of his films will give us a purchase on the moral trajectory of India in its first few decades of independence, particularly through examination of his male characters and their narratives. Films discussed by Sanyal include the Apu Trilogy, Shakha Prasakha, Ghare Baire and Kapurush.
About the Author
Devapriya Sanyal
Devapriya Sanyal is Assistant Professor of English at St Joseph’s University, Bangalore. She has degrees in Literature and Cinema from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of
Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend
(2022).
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