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ISBN | 9788124610688 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Bib. Info | xx, 353 p .; 23 cm. Bibliography Includes Index. |
Product Weight | 700 gms. |
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Cinema Through Rasa discusses the important works of the world cinema in the light of Rasa Siddhanta of the Indian classical aesthetics. Rasa Siddhanta was first mentioned in Bharata Muni’s Natyasastra – the ancient treatise on dramaturgy. This book catalogues the major cinematic works in the light of Abhinavabharati – a tenth-century commentary on the Natyasastra by the great Kashmiri Saivite philosopher Abhinavagupta. Further, it outlines the links between purusartha, the cultural value system of life pursuits in Indian tradition, and aesthetics while citing examples from the works of major directors such as Orson Welles, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Dreyer, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Bresson and Satyajit Ray.