Samir Chopra is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.
Shyam Benegal. Filmmaker and Philosopher
Par :Formats :
- Nombre de pages200
- FormatGrand Format
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.275 kg
- Dimensions13,5 cm × 21,5 cm × 1,5 cm
- ISBN978-1-350-06355-6
- EAN9781350063556
- Date de parution01/01/2021
- CollectionPhilosophical Filmmakers
- ÉditeurBloomsbury
Résumé
"Samir Chopra's fine-grained analyses of Shyam Benegal's prolific output., does great justice to the filmmaker's intellectual reach and ambitions, putting Benegai's deeply committed visions of social and gender justice in conversation with what Chopra calls "philosophy in cinematic form". Those looking fora compelling reading of Senegal's substantial oeuvre will find much to enjoy and ruminate over".
Anuradha Needhom, Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Oberlin College, USA "Samir Chopra brings us closer to the legendary filmmaker and his films. Chopra curates a selection of Senegal's films and persuades us to see films as "philosophy in action" and rumination in celluloid. This smart book has much to offer to the novice os well as film enthusiasts familiar with India's cinema".
Rite Gairola Khanduri, Associate Professor of Anthropology. University of Texas at Arlington, USA For almost fifty years now, Shyam Benegal has been a leading artistic. political and moral force in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking. Benegal is both of, and not of, the Indian film industry. As a philosophical filmmaker, Benegal brings to life the existential crisis of the downtrodden Indian, the 'subaltern' -the landless serf, the lower caste peasant, the marginalized woman-and imposes a distinctive philosophical vision on his cinematic reworkings of literary products.
Focusing on its philosophical depth, Samir Chopra identifies in this book three key aspects of Benegal's oeuvre : a trio at films which signalled to middle-class India that a revolt was brewing in India's hinterlands ; movies which make powerful feminist statements and showcase strong female characters and Benegal's Interpretation, 'translation' and reimaglning of literary works of diverse provenances and artistic impulses.
Running through this body of work is an artistic and moral commitment to a political realism and an intersectional feminism which continually inform each other. In Shyam Benegal : Filmmaker and Philosopher ; Chopra shows how to understand Senegal's cinema is to see, through his lens, modern India's continued process of political and social becoming.
Anuradha Needhom, Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Oberlin College, USA "Samir Chopra brings us closer to the legendary filmmaker and his films. Chopra curates a selection of Senegal's films and persuades us to see films as "philosophy in action" and rumination in celluloid. This smart book has much to offer to the novice os well as film enthusiasts familiar with India's cinema".
Rite Gairola Khanduri, Associate Professor of Anthropology. University of Texas at Arlington, USA For almost fifty years now, Shyam Benegal has been a leading artistic. political and moral force in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking. Benegal is both of, and not of, the Indian film industry. As a philosophical filmmaker, Benegal brings to life the existential crisis of the downtrodden Indian, the 'subaltern' -the landless serf, the lower caste peasant, the marginalized woman-and imposes a distinctive philosophical vision on his cinematic reworkings of literary products.
Focusing on its philosophical depth, Samir Chopra identifies in this book three key aspects of Benegal's oeuvre : a trio at films which signalled to middle-class India that a revolt was brewing in India's hinterlands ; movies which make powerful feminist statements and showcase strong female characters and Benegal's Interpretation, 'translation' and reimaglning of literary works of diverse provenances and artistic impulses.
Running through this body of work is an artistic and moral commitment to a political realism and an intersectional feminism which continually inform each other. In Shyam Benegal : Filmmaker and Philosopher ; Chopra shows how to understand Senegal's cinema is to see, through his lens, modern India's continued process of political and social becoming.