HIS 148 Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray is widely acclaimed as a master of world cinema. Course considers his work to examine authorship at multiple levels: the cultural, historical, social, and familial contexts and the relationship of his film to fiction, the politics and poetics of his vision, and its relationship to colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial India. Also studies the question of gender and the underclass.