The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

The most comprehensive treatment of Satyajit Ray''s work The Cinema of Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre of one of the most prolific and creative filmmakers of the twentieth century. Providing analyses of selected films including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy Chess Players and Jalsaghar among others Darius Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray''s work such as the plight of women functioning within a patriarchal society Ray''s political vision of the doubly colonized and his attack and critique of the Bengali/Indian middle class of today.