MUSI 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Taare Zameen Par, Dadasaheb Phalke, Satyajit Ray
29 Aug 2016
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Bollywood-referring to films coming out of bombay; made in bombay and commercially oriented films; arts films are not included in this category. Came about in the early 1950s as a complete contrast to pop cinema. Dealt with issues at more realistic level than popular cinema. Based on themes such as caste system, sexism/stereotypes, corruption. This type of film was started by unjabi cinema by satyajit ray in india. **** there are three types of cinemas- art, parallel (taare zameen par, Influenced by european film makers: won awards outside of india, mrinal sen a. Influenced by ideas of marxism, existentialism, and surrealism: won awards outside india, bimal roy, parallel cinema film maker, most popular movie was devdas (1955, films took on social and realist issues. Harishchandra: the advent of sound, the talkies (sound films) a. i. Advent of the talkies changed the focus demanded of actors/actresses a. ii. Required to be able to deliver dialogues a. iii.
