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Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, the latest of which is Sojourn (2022). He is also a poet, essayist, short-story writer, and musician. His New and Selected Poems is scheduled to be published in 2023 in the NYRB Poets series. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and edits literaryactivism.com.
Mount Fuji in Satyajit Ray’s Woodblock Art, Part II
In the first installment of this two-part feature, published in our Winter 2023 edition, novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri traced the global impacts of woodblock printing. Here, in the second installment, he focuses on the films of Satyajit Ray, demonstrating the enduring influence of the woodblock print on the formal composition of these works.
Mount Fuji in Cinema: Satyajit Ray’s Woodblock Art
In the first installment of a two-part feature, novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri arrives at a more nuanced understanding of the filmmaker Satyajit Ray by tracing the global impacts of woodblock printing, following its perspective and language as it circulated in the last three centuries.