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Volume 10

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Revisiting Swet Patharer Thala: Woman, Widowhood And Work

Swet Patharer Thala presents a different portrayal of the working woman in post-Colonial Bengali cinema that has no feminist slogan to raise. Yet, it raises several important questions on the status and position of a young, modern, educated and beautiful widow in contemporary Bengali society.

Charulata: The Lonely Wife
Performativity and Politics: Ray and Ghatak
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The Power Of Now Is What I Live In – Tannistha Chatterjee
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Cinema Made in Spain: A Historical Outline 1896-1980
Cinema Made in Spain: A Historical Outline 1896-1980
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Swet Patharer Thala explores the prejudices society holds on to for the Hindu widow even in circumstances that appear modern and contemporary.
Revisiting Swet Patharer Thala: Woman, Widowhood And Work
Swet Patharer Thala presents a different...
Abbas Kiarostami won Golden Palm award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for Taste of Cherry.
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First-nighters posing for the camera outside the Warners' Theatre before the premiere of Don Juan with John Barrymore. Pic Courtesy: National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons
Silent Film Studies: The Curious Absence of Film Sound in Film Theory
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Garam Hawa represents the predicament of one such family of Agra.
Garam Hawa: India’s Living Dead
The title “Garam Hawa” is...
The Seventh Seal (The Criterion Collection) (1957)
Ingmar Bergman – The Seventh Seal
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Rituparno Ghosh
My City Can Neither Handle Me Nor Ignore Me: Rituparno Ghosh
Everything is...
Deep Jele Jai has survived the onslaughts of time, technology and evolution to remain one of the best films directed by Asit Sen
Deep Jele Jai: Representation Of The Physically And Mentally Challenged
Deep Jele Jai has survived the onslaughts...
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In Gulaal’s heavily masculine world of politics, inheritance, and parochialism, Kiran, starts from a point of disadvantage on account of her gender and pedigree, to battle her way in a bid to acquire power on her own rules.
Sex And The Second Sex In Anurag Kashyap’s World Of Films
And although Kashyap’s woman is often the...
An Attempt At Understanding Woody Allen
An Attempt At Understanding Woody Allen
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Timeless Artists Of The World: Liv And Ingmar
Timeless Artists Of The World: Liv And Ingmar
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Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella, the first of the two films he made on the Feluda series
Why Feluda Works
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Filming Dreams: Desire As Power In Gitanjali Rao’s Animation Movies
Filming Dreams: Desire As Power In Gitanjali Rao’s Animation Movies
Gitanjali...
Who can forget Madhubala’s naughty flouncing of skirts to the sensuous yet charming tunes of ‘Aiyee Mehrbaan' (Howrah Bridge, 1958) (Pic: Youtube)
Critiquing Sexuality: Tracing the Changing Sensuality of the Popular Hindi Film Heroine (1950s-2000s)
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Animal Farm (2004) Voice Cast: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham Directed by: John Halas (Director), Joy Batchelor
Animal Farm 1954 – An Allegorical Satire on Stalinism
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The National Award winning film Harano Sur is considered one of the landmark films of the Uttam-Suchitra pair
Romance In Cinema – Uttam Kumar And Suchitra Sen – A Case Study
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