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Preface: Sandip Ray Foreword: Shyam BenegalPART ONE: THE FILM-MAKER'S CRAFT1. National Styles in Cinema 2. Notes on Filming Bibhuti Bhusan 3. Should a Film-maker Be Original? 4. This Word 'Technique' 5. All These Devices 6. The Changing Face of Films 7. The Question of Reality 8. The Confronting Question 9. A Film Must Achieve Its Objective 10. Thoughts on the Camera 11. 'I Wish I Could Have Shown Them to You' 12. The New Cinema and I 13. Under Western Eyes 14. The Art of SilencePART TWO: PEN PORTRAITS 15. A Word about Godard 16. The New Antonioni 17. The Nayak 18. 'Never Use Animals' 19. The Immortal Tramp PART THREE: CELEBRATING CINEMA 20. Arrival in Moscow 21. Film Festivals 22. Our Festivals, Their FestivalsFilmography Satyajit Ray's Contributions to Films Other Than His Own Awards won by Satyajit Ray Index Preserving a Legacy

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Simultaneously lyrical and substantive, Satyajit Ray on Cinema captures the aesthetic spirit of the director, graphic designer, painter, storyteller, fabulist, and, here, chronicler of the coming-of-age of cinema. -- Keya Ganguly, author of Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray

About the Author

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries, and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer, and film critic. His other writings on cinema include the best-sellers Our Films Their Films and Speaking of Films. Ray received many major awards for his work, including thirty-two Indian National Film Awards and a Bharat Ratna from the Government of India, and he is the only Indian to have received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Sandip Ray is the son of Satyajit Ray and runs the children's magazine Sandesh. In 1983, he directed his first film, Phatikchand, which won several national and international awards. Sandip also directed Satyajit Ray presents, a television series based on Satyajit Ray's short stories. Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976, the Padma Bhushan in 1991, and the Dadasaheb Phalke in 2007, the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement. He is also a seven-time winner of the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

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