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An incomplete sentence : the cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja / edited by Sivamohan Sumathy, Robert Crusz, Ashley Ratnavibhushana.

Title: An incomplete sentence : the cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja / edited by Sivamohan Sumathy, Robert Crusz, Ashley Ratnavibhushana.
Publication: Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka : Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, 2009.

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xiii, 162 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"In Pathiraja's films, visual, narrative and ideological motifs intertwine in a complex and fascinating manner. He learnt the language of cinema from the films of Peries and others, but also recognised their socio-political limitations in a country which was heading for a period of deep turmoil. He had studied the radical activist filmmaking of Europeans such as Godard, the 'Third Cinema' of Solanas, Littin and Rocha, and South Asians like Sen and Ghatak. So he was prepared with the tools for a critical film practice when he made his first feature length film, One League of Sky in 1974. He moved away from bourgeois realism and paved the way for a socially engaged and critically humanist cinema."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
Filimography: (p.137-144).

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committed to retain

ISBN

8789550178001 (canceled/invalid)

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^^2011323089

OCLC

436032826

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Harvard Library