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Ritwik Ghatak: Occasional Essays for a 100th Birthday

Ritwik Ghatak: Occasional Essays for a 100th Birthday

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
Parekh, Surya

Paperback

Series: India List

Film StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1803096578
ISBN13: 9781803096575
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Sep 5 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
A bold, transnational interpretation of Ritwik Ghatak's cinema that invites readers to encounter his films as meditations on history, migration, and collective survival.

The cinema of Ritwik Ghatak (1925-76) continues to resonate across borders and generations. His films--largely shaped by the 1947 Partition of Bengal and the experience of displacement--probe the fractured human condition through bold formal experimentation, unforgettable soundscapes, and a profound sense of myth and memory. Though his body of work was modest in size, Ghatak's influence has steadily expanded, securing his place as a major figure in world cinema. This distinctive volume, which marks the centenary of this visionary filmmaker, gathers essays by important scholars and thinkers from around the world.

Moving beyond conventional film criticism and area studies, the collection stages new, transnational encounters with Ghatak's films--approaching them as world texts, as sonic and visual experiments, and as meditations on migration, collectivity, and social existence.

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