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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory
Postcolonialism and Film Theory
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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory
Postcolonialism and Film Theory
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 The Discourse of Colonial Enterprise and Its Representation of the Other Through the Expanded Cultural Critique
- 2 Childhood: Work, Play, and Shame Friendship in the Discourse of Enterprise
- 3 Towards a Theory of Subaltern and Nationalist Genres: The Post-1857 Lakhnavi Tall Tales and Their Nationalist Appropriation in Premchand's "The Chess Players" (1924)
- 4 Comic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann's The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players (1977)
- 5 Refuting the Expanded Cultural Critique: The Construction of Wajid Ali Shah's Alterity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index