3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I: THE HISTORY OF ART CINEMA
5. 1. Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category 25
6. 2. The “New” Indian Cinema: Journeys of the Art Film 53
7. 3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement 92
8. PART II: ART FILMS AS HISTORY
9. 4. Ritwik Ghatak and the Overcoming of History 127
10. 5. “Anger and After”: History, Political Cinema, and Mrinal Sen 154
11. 6. The Untimely Filmmaker: Ray’s City Trilogy and a Crisis of Historicism 189
12. Epilogue: Art Cinema and Our Present 223
13. Acknowledgments 231
14. Notes 235
15. Select Bibliography 281
16. Index 295