By Vidyarthy Chatterjee
Every year the Kalpanirjhar Foundation along with Goethe-Institut Kolkata present a lecture by scholars and experts on subjects related to cinema and allied arts. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Vidyarthy Chatterjee on
‘The Labouring Classes – Life Realities & Film Representations’. It will be an attempt at chronicling the fractured lives of workers, peasants and others sweating it out to earn a living. Chatterjee will be focusing on the daily lived realities of the labouring classes, as well as their representations in a few chosen documentary films.
The programme will also include the launch of Vidyarthy Chatterjee’s new book ‘Despair and Defiance: Cinema of the Labouring Classes’ published by Thema in association with Celluloid Chapter, Jamshedpur.
VIDYARTHY CHATTERJEE
Vidyarthy Chatterjee attended Loyola School, Jamshedpur, and Presidency College, Calcutta. For almost five decades he has pursued the politics and poetics of cinema. His Calcutta Films- A Joshy Joseph Trilogy (Cerebrum Books, Kochi), received the Chidananda Dasgupta Centenary Award in 2021 for best book on cinema. Later this year, his third book, Desperation as Film Art, is to be published by Cerebrum Books.
THE BOOK
Vidyarthy Chatterjee, awarded the First Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the best writing on cinema in 2021, offers a probing view of the treatment of working people in Indian cinema over the years in this 12th Kalpanirjhar Annual Lecture, followed by the launch of a more comprehensive study of the same experience in his book ‘Despair and Defiance: Cinema of the Labouring Classes’, published by Thema, in association with Celluloid Chapter, Jamshedpur.
The programme is open to all.
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