Satyajit Ray's the Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory

by R Dube, Reena Dube Dr, Reena Dube

Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349523534
• ISBN13: 9781349523535
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"