Satyajit Ray: Beyond the Frame

Name : Satyajit Ray: Beyond the Frame

Language : English

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Biographies

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2021

Author And Publisher : Any single study of Ray can hardly do justice to the multiple aspects of his corpus. This book, while recognizing Ray both as a film-maker and a literary artist, charts his progression from lyricism, through rebellion, cynicism and despair, to reconciliation and faith. Simultaneously it aims at demystification of the prevalent image of Ray as a transparent 'Renaissance genius' and thus makes an attempt to resolve the seemingly inexplicable paradoxes and binaries that make-up the contrapuntal layeredness of his work. A master of all the Muses, a film director, a designer and illustrator, a music composer and a creative writer, Satyajit Ray was in practice a living paradigm of the multiplex interrelations between different forms of art. Critics are often baffled by the sheer diversity of his interests. A student of Economics and then of Fine Arts—from fine arts to graphics and calligraphy. Initially he had a career in illustration and designing; then turning to cinema and in the process of film-making, to writing screen-plays and composing music and finally to creative writing. With one particular sphere perpetually serving as an atelier for the other, the transition from one field of creative activity to another was never abrupt.

Country of Origin : India