Satyajit Ray's the chess players and postcolonial theory : culture, labour, and the value of alterity
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Satyajit Ray's the chess players and postcolonial theory : culture, labour, and the value of alterity
(Language, discourse, society)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-242) and index
Filmography: p. 243-245
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.
Table of Contents
Preface The Discourse of Colonial Enterprise and its Representation of the other through the Expanded Cultural Critique Childhood: Work, Play and Shame Friendship in the Discourse of Enterprise Towards a Theory of Subaltern and Nationalist Genres: The Post-1857 Lakhnavi Tall Tales and their Nationalist Appropriation of Premchand's The Chess Players Comic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann's Tea House of the August Moon and Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players Refuting the Expanded Cultural Critique: The Construction of Wajid's Alterity Bibliography References Index
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