{"id":5758,"date":"2020-07-04T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2020-07-04T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T14:09:02","slug":"ray100-lecture-4-the-window-in-satyajit-ray-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/ray100-lecture-4-the-window-in-satyajit-ray-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray@100 Lecture 4: The Window in Satyajit Ray\u2019s Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opa4E6R08Wc\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/ray100-lecture-3-the-desiring-woman-in-satyajit-rays-cinema\/\">previous lecture<\/a><\/span> Silhouette editor Amitava Nag discussed about the Desiring Women in Satyajit Ray\u2019s Calcutta Trilogy and focussed primarily on the use of mirror and window in the depiction.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the Albertian metaphor for painting as an open window, in this lecture Amitava explores some compositional inspirations\/semblances\/correlations of Ray\u2019s frames vis-a-vis that of established artists. He extends this lecture by expanding the use of \u2018Window\u2019 as a device in Ray\u2019s other films, looking into few recurring characteristics and also the different usages leading to differing interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the \u2018Window\u2019 in Ray\u2019s cinema is probably difficult to interpret using the western theories of gaze and voyeurism, yet they do provoke certain interesting tropes &#8211; of being a mirror and also a boundary, a symbol of trough in communication and further, as an extension of the human eye.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss the Other Lectures!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Ray@100 Lecture 3: The Desiring Woman in Satyajit Ray's Cinema\" href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/ray100-lecture-3-the-desiring-woman-in-satyajit-rays-cinema\/\">Ray@100 Lecture 3: The Desiring Woman in Satyajit Ray&#8217;s Cinema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/ray100-lecture-2-glimpses-of-the-city-in-satyajit-ray-cinema\/\">Ray@100 Lecture 2: Glimpses of the City in Satyajit Ray\u2019s Cinema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/acting-satyajit-ray-films-ray100-video-lecture-1\/\">Ray@100 Lecture 1: Acting in Satyajit Ray\u2019s Cinema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/retrospective\/ray100\/\">Click here for exclusive features on understanding Satyajit Ray&#8217;s films coming up as part of Ray@100 Centenary Series.<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag&#8217;s 4th Lecture in the Ray@100 Special Series explores compositional inspirations\/ semblances\/ correlations of Ray\u2019s frames vis-a-vis that of established artists and the use of \u2018Window\u2019 as a device in Ray\u2019s other films.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":5759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[2274,445,447,196,2285,2278,38,2275,28,1218,1217,2276],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ray100","tag-acting-in-satyajit-ray-films","tag-apu-trilogy","tag-apur-sansar","tag-cinema-of-satyajit-ray","tag-mahanagar","tag-mahapurush-ray-film","tag-pratidwandi","tag-ray100","tag-satyajit-ray","tag-satyajit-ray-and-apu","tag-satyajit-ray-films","tag-understanding-cinema"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}