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Seeing is believing : selected writings on cinema
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Articles with reference to India.
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- Creator
- Chidananda Das Gupta
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Delhi ; New York : Penguin Viking, 2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 295 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0670082066, 9780670082063
- OCLC
- ocn246909775
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index.
- Introduction -- 1. Of Margi and Desi : the traditional divide -- 2. Seeing is believing -- 3. Why the films sing -- 4. Cinema : the realist imperative -- 5. Woman, non-violence and Indian cinema -- 6. Precursors of unpopular cinema : a parallel view of Indian film history -- 7. A word on awards -- 8. Film as visual anthropology -- 9. The crisis in film studies -- 10. How Indian is Indian cinema? -- 11. Cinema takes over the state -- Notes on five directors -- 12. Satyajit Ray : I. The first ten years ; II. Modernism and mythicality -- 13. Ritwik Ghatak : Cinema, Marxism and the mother goddess -- 14. Adoor Gopalakrishnan : The Kerala coconut -- 15. Mrinal Sen : Loose cannon -- 16. Shyam Benegal : official biographies, personal cinema