Gaston Roberge, proposes a militant programme. . . for another cinema committed to the building up of another society. He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gaston Roberge
Gaston Roberge, MA, Theatre Art (Film), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1935. He came to India in 1961, and since then has lived in Kolkata. He is a Jesuit, teaching Mass Communication and Film Studies at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. In 1970, with the assistance of the late Satyajit Ray, he founded a media center in Kolkata, called Chitrabani. In 1935, he started the Educational Media Research Center of St. Xavier's College. He has written several books on cinema and communication. In 1999, his book Communication Cinema Development (Manohar Publishers, Delhi), won a national award.
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