Ray, Satyajit

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This study situates Indian director Satyajit Ray's work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments revive the category of political or "committed" art. It suggests that in their depictions of Indian life, Ray's films intimate t…

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 …