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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory

Postcolonialism and Film Theory

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  • © 2005

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  1. Reena Dube
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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Discourse of Colonial Enterprise and Its Representation of the Other Through the Expanded Cultural Critique

    • Reena Dube
    Pages 1-40

  3. Childhood: Work, Play, and Shame Friendship in the Discourse of Enterprise

    • Reena Dube
    Pages 41-84

  4. Towards a Theory of Subaltern and Nationalist Genres: The Post-1857 Lakhnavi Tall Tales and Their Nationalist Appropriation in Premchand’s “The Chess Players” (1924)

    • Reena Dube
    Pages 85-129

  5. Comic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players (1977)

    • Reena Dube
    Pages 130-168

  6. Refuting the Expanded Cultural Critique: The Construction of Wajid Ali Shah’s Alterity

    • Reena Dube
    Pages 169-198

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 199-250
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About this book

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 cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.

About the author

REENA DUBE teaches film and literature in the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is the author, with Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, of Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History , forthcoming from SUNY Press in January (2005).

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