Seminar: Pather Panchali

Presented by Brandeis professor Ulka Anjaria, this pre-film seminar will situate the film’s director Satyajit Rau within the larger context of 20th-century Indian filmmaking and help participants understand the film as a contribution to global cinema.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Ulka Anjaria is professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, with research specialties in South Asian literature and film, realism and the global novel. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012), Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2021). She is the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015) and co-editor (with Anjali Nerlekar) of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures.