Rituparno Ghosh: cinema, gender and art /
edited by Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta.
- First South Asia edition.
- New Delhi Routledge 2016
- xix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- South Asian history and culture .
- South Asian history and culture. .
Rs.995/- TRP40/225
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Invoking love, death and elsewhere : searching the auteur in Rituparno Ghosh's Abohoman -- Rituparno Ghosh and the pursuit of freedom -- Locating Rituparno Ghosh in Tollywood -- 'Just like a film star!' : the style of being Rituparno Ghosh -- The endangered city in Rituparno Ghosh's early cinema of confinement -- Borrowing, becoming and the question of the self in Sob Charitro Kalponik -- En-gendereing the detective : of love, longing and feminine follies -- Closeted desires and open secrets : Raincoat and Noukadubi -- Beyond the binary : (trans)gender narratives and class distinction in Rituparno Ghosh's later films -- 'Kissed on one cheek and slapped on the other' : Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada as an allegory of oppositional readings -- A room of hir own : the queer aesthetics of Rituparno Ghosh -- Shohini Ghosh in conversation with Rituparno Ghosh -- Kaustav Bakshi in conversation with Rituparno Ghosh -- Interviewer's note -- Cast : Sharmila Tagore, Jaya Bachchan and Aparna Sen -- Crew : Avik Mukhopadhyay, Arghyakmal Mitra, Indranil Ghosh and Debojyoti Mishra.