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FILM THEORY
Rs 1200
£ 40.00 $ 70.00
'Even when I go outside my time, I cannot go outside history . . . I have seen history as a continuous, growing phenomenon, marching almost imperceptibly into the character of our own time. Above everything else, I am committed to my own time.' Veteran filmmaker Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. As he has continued to experiment with cinema over the decades, evolving his own quest in response to the changing times, he has also maintained an acute social critique, which shows in his films, writings and interviews. The enfant terrible of Indian cinema in the 60s and 70s, he is known for his subtle, nuanced films, which capture a moment of truth, in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. This collection encapsulates close to half a century of filmmaking. It includes original writings - memoirs, letters, musings on politics, literature, theatre and cinema; critiques of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Chaplin and a host of other international film-makers, especially those from Latin America; and intensive interviews with scholars, critics and filmmakers such as Samik Banerjee, Swapan Mullic and Reinhard Hauff. In juxtaposition with intimate photographs of the artist at work and stills from his movies, these form a rare montage of the filmmaker and the man, mapping an unusual creative landscape which offers valuable insights into his films. There is also a complete filmography encompassing his features, telefilms and documentaries.
Rs 325 £ 11.95 $ 17.95 Since his untimely death, Ghatak has become a cult figure for followers of serious
Indian cinema, the 'enfant terrible' of the Avant-garde. In this volume, his writings on cinema include
some important pieces previously available only in the original Bengali, as well as the collection
pieces in English previously published by Ritwik Memorial Trust as Cinema and I. Gathered here
are musings, reviews, essays, and interviews. Together they offer a fascinating insight into the mind
of a unique filmmaker, the significance of whose contribution to the heritage of cinema in India is
beyond dispute
Rs 160 £
12.25 $ 14.95 Gaston Roberge defines film theory and discusses its
basics before giving a lucid account of the shift from an idealist mode
of thinking to a materialist one which occurred around the mid-60s as
part of a larger intellectual revolution, and led to a profound renewal
of film theory under the joint influence of three main intellectual currents-
structuralism, Marxism and feminism; and three main disciplines- semiotics,
psychoanalysis and linguistics.
Rs 60 Ms
Boyum, Professor of English and Communication Arts at New York University,
studies film adaptations of seventeen modern classics of fiction including
Women in Love, Tess, Lord of the Flies, Death in Venice, the
works of Visconti, Polanski, Forman, Brook, Kubrik, Coppola, Schlondorff,
Reisz and scenarios by Jean-Claude Carriere and Francis Ford Coppola.
Rs 275 each/Rs
550 for the set
A comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work
on film, including the most original film thinkers and important filmmakers.
Rs 575 Both diary
and notebook, it covers the years from 1970 until his death. Intimate,
intense and deeply personal, he writes of his family, his perception of
the society, the future of art, the bureaucrats who control the Soviet
cultural scene, cinema in particular; his reflections on Dostoyevsky,
Tolstoy, Mann and Hesse; also included are plans and notes for his stage
version of Hamlet, and a detailed proposal for a two-part film
of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. out of print
Rs 750 £
45 $ 75 Sergei Mikhailovitch
Eisenstein(1898-1948) was one of the world's greatest filmmakers, theorists
and teachers of cinema. He will always be remembered as the auteur of
some of cinema's seminal classics- Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible,
October, to mention just a few.
Rs 75 While the World War raged, Sergei Eisenstein, perhaps
the world's greatest filmmaker theoretician, lectured at the State Institute
of Cinematography at Moscow, on how to turn a short story into a filmscript.
In this transcript of the lectures, appearing in English for the first
time in a translation by Alan Upchurch, Eisenstein analyses in painstaking
detail two parallel scripts made out of the same story, and prefers one
to the other.
Rs 75 Jay Leyda, the veteran Eisensteinian, and Alan Upchurch,
scholar- translator, have collaborated on this collection of invaluable
Eisenstein material: a couple of pieces by the master on imagery, a historic
1925 document on 'Falling Out of Proletkult', and a bunch of letters,
including a long correspondence between Esther Shub, the outstanding documentary
filmmaker, and Eisenstein, letters to Japanese friends and to Victoria
Ocampo, and a letter from Samuel Beckett that got lost.
Rs 100 Writing while he was making Ivan, Eisenstein
opens up, in his characteristic manner, a whole area of thinking on 'the
psychology of composition'. Published in English for the first time, these
lectures and lecture notes have been assembled and translated by Jay Leyda
and Alan Upchurch.
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Montage
Rows & Rows Of Fences
The Subject of Cinema 
Double Exposure : 
Movies and Methods 
Time Within Time 
Beyond the Stars 
The Short Fiction Scenario 
Eisenstein 2 
The Psychology of Composition