Sayandeb Chowdhury
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayandeb Chowdhury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayandeb |
| FAMILY NAME | Chowdhury |
| SIGNATURE | CHOWDHURY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4152-6925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A postcolonial iconi -city
Since the early years of India’s emergence into a ‘post-colony’, the possibilities of the popular in Bengali cinema had to be renegotiated within the complex registers offered by a severely decimated cultural economy of the region. It could be claimed that by early 1950s, Bengali cinema’s negotiation of a linguistic and spatial equivalent of ‘disputed’ and ‘lost’ nation led to it trying to constantly spatialize Calcutta, offering several possibil…
The endangered city in Rituparno Ghosh’s early cinema of confinement
This essay looks at the cinema of Rituparno Ghosh from the vantage point of urban cultural studies. Ghosh was at a forefront of a new cinema in the mid-1990s that purportedly ‘brought the Bengali middle classes back to the theatre’. Under the rubric of this claim which is verifiably true, lies the understated idea: who or what was the nature of this new middle class and how in the initial years of globalization did they relate to the imperatives …
Ageless Hero, Sexless Man
This paper offers a critique of Satyajit Ray's literature for young adults, a major part of which was dedicated to his popular and favorite sleuth, Feluda. The primary contention of this paper is that, since it was conceived on the pages of the Ray family magazine Sandesh, the Feluda stories have followed a rather taut, moral architecture that cannot be explained only in terms of categories that literature for young adults or children permit. The…
The Heroic Laughter of Modernity
Ageless Hero, Sexless Man
This paper offers a critique of Satyajit Ray's literature for young adults, a major part of which was dedicated to his popular and favorite sleuth, Feluda. The primary contention of this paper is that, since it was conceived on the pages of the Ray family magazine Sandesh, the Feluda stories have followed a rather taut, moral architecture that cannot be explained only in terms of categories that literature for young adults or children permit. The…
The Heroic Laughter of Modernity
The endangered city in Rituparno Ghosh’s early cinema of confinement
This essay looks at the cinema of Rituparno Ghosh from the vantage point of urban cultural studies. Ghosh was at a forefront of a new cinema in the mid-1990s that purportedly ‘brought the Bengali middle classes back to the theatre’. Under the rubric of this claim which is verifiably true, lies the understated idea: who or what was the nature of this new middle class and how in the initial years of globalization did they relate to the imperatives …
Ageless Hero, Sexless Man
This paper offers a critique of Satyajit Ray's literature for young adults, a major part of which was dedicated to his popular and favorite sleuth, Feluda. The primary contention of this paper is that, since it was conceived on the pages of the Ray family magazine Sandesh, the Feluda stories have followed a rather taut, moral architecture that cannot be explained only in terms of categories that literature for young adults or children permit. The…
A postcolonial iconi -city
Since the early years of India’s emergence into a ‘post-colony’, the possibilities of the popular in Bengali cinema had to be renegotiated within the complex registers offered by a severely decimated cultural economy of the region. It could be claimed that by early 1950s, Bengali cinema’s negotiation of a linguistic and spatial equivalent of ‘disputed’ and ‘lost’ nation led to it trying to constantly spatialize Calcutta, offering several possibil…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Bengali (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)