{"id":5666,"date":"2020-05-07T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2020-05-06T23:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:12:04","slug":"ray100-lecture-2-glimpses-of-the-city-in-satyajit-ray-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/ray100-lecture-2-glimpses-of-the-city-in-satyajit-ray-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray@100 Lecture 2: Glimpses of the City in Satyajit Ray&#8217;s Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7p6ZU-ykJr4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p><p>Calcutta, the big city had been represented in a number of films since the advent of cinema in Bengal. Even the commercial films of the 1950s starring the legendary pair of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen depict the flight of an individual from the village to the city. These films engage the hero in city tours to help him discover the city space and, in turn, introduce him with the notions of modernity.<\/p><p>From the point of view of an individual positioned in the city in \u2018Apur Sansar\u2019 and \u2018Mahanagar\u2019, Ray\u2019s characters (and his camera) started looking outward during the turbulent \u201970s in the polemical \u2018Calcutta Trilogy\u2019. The individual, in these films, represents the crowd. In accordance with this change of cinematic vision, Ray devised different techniques \u2013 handheld shots, rapid tracks etc to capture the unrest that was in the city at that time.<\/p><p>This video lecture, looks at how the representation of the city changed and evolved in Satyajit Ray\u2019s cinematic world.<\/p><p>Silhouette editor Amitava Nag explores several such interesting and unique elements of the CITY in Ray\u2019s cinema in the SECOND episode of RAY@100 Lecture Series \u2013 Brought to you by Silhouette.\u00a0\u00a0Watch this space for more episodes!<\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/retrospective\/ray100\/\">Click here for exclusive features on understanding Satyajit Ray\u2019s films coming up as part of Ray@100 Centenary Series.<\/a><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second episode of <strong>Ray@100 Video Lecture Series<\/strong>, <em>Silhouette<\/em> editor Amitava Nag looks at the glimpses of the city in Ray\u2019s cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[2274,447,196,2285,2275,28,1218,2284,1217,2276],"coauthors":[1145],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ray100","tag-acting-in-satyajit-ray-films","tag-apur-sansar","tag-cinema-of-satyajit-ray","tag-mahanagar","tag-ray100","tag-satyajit-ray","tag-satyajit-ray-and-apu","tag-satyajit-ray-centenary","tag-satyajit-ray-films","tag-understanding-cinema"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}