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.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- A Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali
- The Ray Family Tree
- Introduction: Getting to Know Ray
- Chapter 1: A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family
- Chapter 2: Early Years: 1921–40
- Chapter 3: Santiniketan and Tagore: 1940–2
- Chapter 4: Commercial Artist and Critic: 1943–50
- Chapter 5: The Making of Pather Panchali: 1950–5
- Chapter 6: The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali 1955, Aparajito (The Unvanquished) 1956, The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) 1959
- Chapter 7: Comedies: The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, The Holy Man (Mahapurush) 1964
- Chapter 8: The Music Room: (Jalsaghar) 1958
- Chapter 9: The Goddess: (Devi) 1960
- Chapter 10: Three Daughters: (Teen Kanya) 1961
- Chapter 11: Kanchenjungha: 1962
- Chapter 12: The Expedition: (Abhijan) 1962
- Chapter 13: The Big City: (Mahanagar) 1963
- Chapter 14: The Lonely Wife: (Charulata) 1964
- Chapter 15: The Coward: (Kapurush) 1965
- Chapter 16: The Hero: (Nayak) 1966
- Chapter 17: Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980
- Chapter 18: Days and Nights in the Forest: (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969
- Chapter 19: The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha) 1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975
- Chapter 20: Distant Thunder: (Asani Sanket) 1973
- Chapter 21: Detective Films: The Zoo (Chiriakhana) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978
- Chapter 22: The Chess Players: (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977
- Chapter 23: Short Films: Two 1964, Pikoo 1980
- Chapter 24: Deliverance: (Sadgati) 1981
- Chapter 25: The Home and the World: (Ghare Baire) 1984
- Chapter 26: Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Bala 1976, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, The Inner Eye 1973
- Chapter 27: Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien
- Chapter 28: Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer
- Chapter 29: ‘Some Aspects of His Craft’: Ray as Film-maker
- Chapter 30: ‘The Inner Eye’
- Chapter 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 Ray
- Appendix: Ray in Conversation
- Glossary
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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