Ghatak, Ritwik Kumar (1925–76)
Ritwik Ghatak was an Indian Bengali filmmaker who, along with filmmakers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, is known as one of the proponents of…
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Ray, Satyajit (1921–1992)
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, writer, music director, and illustrator, considered among the greatest auteur-directors of 20th-century cinema, along with the likes of Akira…
Modernism in South Asia
In South Asia, a certain haziness regarding modernism and modernity derives not only from the manner in which they can be elided with each other,…
Indian Parallel Cinema
Mostly defined through its ideological opposition to Popular Indian Cinema, Indian Parallel Cinema, in general terms, is understood as India’s art or alternative cinema. More…
The Santiniketan School
The Santiniketan School refers to a small group of artists who were active in Santiniketan, a small university town north of Calcutta, from 1921 to…
Tendulkar, Vijay (1928–2008)
Vijay Tendulkar was an Indian playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, fiction writer, political journalist, and social commentator whose work in multiple genres represents…
Renoir, Jean (1894–1979)
Jean Renoir was a French director and writer responsible for over 40 films from the silent period to 1970. He was born in Paris as…
Art Cinema
Although the term circulates widely in popular and academic discourse, ‘art cinema’ is a notoriously difficult concept to define, conjuring a wide range of associations…