Publications

A house magazine for members - 'Cinephile,' is published every month to make members aware of the significance of the types of films screened by the Chapter.

We first published a monograph on Govind Nihalani. It was followed by 'Indian Cinema-- Contemporary Perception from the Thirties, ' African Cinema - A view from India,' 'Cinema in Latin America-- An Inside View' and, 'An Actress in her time,' all of which have been critically appreciated internationally.

List of publications from Celluloid Chapter Jamshedpur

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Edited by Samik Banyopadhyay, with Nihalani's long Jamshedpur lecture on the Art of the Cinematographer, other texts by and a long interview and 'conversations' with Nihalani, contributions by Tendulkar, Benegal and Om Puri, and an exhaustive filmography of his works as director and cinematographer.

Selected by Dhruba Gupta and Biren Das Sharma. Edited by Samik bandyopadhyay. A selection of readings - overviews, audience responses, criticism, filmmakers on filmmaking, interviews with stars, trade professionals, and national leaders like Radhakrishnan, Patel and Rajaji from film periodicals from the 1930s, offering rare insights into Indian cinema in the decade that saw the transition from the silent cinema to the talkies, and nationalism beginning to explore cultural forms as part of a larger post colonial project.

A concise history of African cinema by Dhuruba Gupta, offering brilliant insights into the works of the major African directors and touching on the most pertinent theoretical questions involved; with a select filmography.

Edited by Indranil Chakraborty, S V Raman, and Samik Bandyopadhyay. A selection of readings - mostly inaccesible memoiral and critical texts, and manifestoes by and interviews with major Latin American film personalities, including Garcia Marquez, Birri, Gutierrez Alea, Littin, Solanas, Sanjines, Rocha, and Dos Santos; some of them in direct dialogues with Indian critics; with comprehensive backgrounders, introductions, and a selection of stills.

Karuna Banerjee, best known for her memorable performance as Sarbajaya the mother in the first two parts of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy - Pather Panchali and Aparajito - went on to act in a few more films, including two more by Ray, one Mrinal Sen, and an unfinished piece by Ritwik Ghatak. In her essays and reviews collected here for the first time, she comes through as a perceptive critic of the cinema and TV of her time; a sensitive chronicler of the making of Pather Panchali, a different kind of filmmaking altogether and a liberal thinker reacting to the major social and political events of the last fifty years. She defines her position on these issues with exemplary clarity and an uncompromising honesty. And through out it all runs an actress' confident sense of time and space, rich with unusual insights.