Abstract
Almost a century after his birth and several decades after his death, the specter of Satyajit Ray continues to haunt Bengali "new cinema." This essay looks at the afterlives of the Ray film and the manner in which his life and work continue to be repurposed in the era of digital media. While the Ray archive has become more available than ever via digital technologies and the Internet, a whole slew of filmmakers harness the tropes and energies of his filmography in startling new guises. Ray is today a compendium of meanings and affects that can be easily deployed to generate a nostalgia that is determinedly resistant to the political. What is at stake here is the very relationship between the political and the cinematic, and, under the aegis of the market, the Ray text is being commodified in a very specific way.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | A Companion to Indian Cinema |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 260-280 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119048206 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781119048190 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 12 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
Keywords
- Cinephilia
- Citation
- Internet
- Intertextuality
- Nostalgia
- Reflexivity
- Remake
- Satyajit Ray
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