Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: "Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955)," "Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956)," and "Apur Sa[...]

Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contr[...]

Satyajit Ray is India?s greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. Darius Cooper?s study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied work from a social and historical perspective, and to situate it within Indian aesthetics. Providing a[...]