Woman At The Window: The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray
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Edition
1st.ed.
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ISBN
9789351365020
Length
356p.
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Representations of women in Indian cinema are often warped and twisted. They are subjected to a series of gazes – voyeuristic, investigative and titillating. The controlling look is always with the male. One film-maker who consistently steered clear of this right through his career was Satyajit Ray. None of Ray’s women on celluloid can be reduced to a cliche. They defy every imaginable stereotyping. This is particularly true of the women in his ...
