References
Films
- Son of the Soil [Dharti Ke Lal]. Dir. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. IPTA Pictures, 1946. Film.
- Babla [Babla]. Dir. Agradoot. 1951 Film.
- Manhattan. Dir. Woody Allen. Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, 1979. Film
- The City Below [Neecha Nagar]. Dir. Chetan Anand. India Pictures, 1946. Film.
- City Lights. Dir. Charles Chaplin. Charles Chaplin Productions, 1931. Film
- Modern Times. Dir. Charles Chaplin. Charles Chaplin Productions, 1936. Film
- They Live That Side [Ora Thake Odhare]. Dir Sukumar Dasgupta. SM Productions, 1954. Film.
- The Citizen [Nagarik]. Dir Ritwik Ghatak. Film Guild, 1952. Film.
- Meghe Dhaka Tara [The Cloud-Capped Star] Dir. Ritwik Ghatak. Chitrakalpa, 1960. Film.
- E-Flat [Komal Gandhar] Dir. Ritwik Ghatak. Chitrakalpa, 1961. Film.
- The Golden Thread [Subarnarekha]. Dir Ritwik Ghatak, JJ Films, 1965. Film.
- The Rootless [Chhinnamul]. Dir. Nemai Ghosh. 1951. Film.
- Breathless. Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. Les Films Impéria et al. 1960. Film
- ‘42 [Beyallish] Dir. Hemen Gupta. Film Trust of India, 1949. Film.
- Day After Day [Diner Pore Din] Dir. Jyotirmoy Ray. Lokbani Chitra Pratisthan, 1949. Film
- The Third Man. Dir. Carol Reed. Carol Reed’s Production, 1949. Film
- Rome Open City. Dir. Roberto Rosselini. Excelsa Film, 1945. Film
- Towards the Light [Udayer Pathe]. Dir. Bimal Roy. New Theatres, 1944. Film.
- Berlin: Symphony of a City. Dir. Walter Ruttman. Deutsche Vereins-Film, 1927. Film
- Blade Runner. Dir. Ridley Scott. Warner Bros et al, 1982. Film
- Bicycle Thieves. Dir. Vittorio de Sica. Produzioni De Sica, 1948. Film
- Playtime. Dir. Jacques Tati. Jolly Film & Specta Films, 1967. Film
- Man with a Movie Camera. Dir. Dziga Vertov. VUFKU. 1929. Film
Texts
- Bachelard, Gaston (1969). The Poetics of Space. Trans. Maria Jolas. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
- Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji (2012). Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Reader. NewDelhi: Worldview Publications.
- Barber, Stephen (2004). Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space. London: Reaktion Books.
- Bhattacharya, Malini (1979). ‘Nagarik: RitwikGhatak’s First Film.’ Social Scientist 8.3: 60–63.
- Benjamin, Walter (1999). The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Biswas, Moinak (2000). ‘The Couple and Their Spaces, Harano Sur as Melodrama Now.’ Meaning Making in Indian Cinema. Ed. Ravi Vasudevan. New Delhi : OUP.
- Biswas, Moinak (2007). ‘The City and the Real: Chhinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1990s.’City Flicks: Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience. Ed. Preben Kaarsholm. Calcutta: Seagull Books. 40–59.
- Bruno, Giuliana (2002). Atlas of Emotion. London: Verso.
- Clarke, David, ed. (1997). The Cinematic City. London: Routledge.
- Dasgupta, Chidananda (1985). ‘Cinema, Marxism, and the Mother Goddess.’ India International Centre Quarterly 12.3: 249–264.
- de Certeau, Michel (1992). The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
- Martin, Jay (1988). ‘Scopic Regimes of Modernity.’ Vision and Visuality Ed. Hal Wallis. Seattle, WA: Bay Press. 3–23.
- Lefebvre, Henry (1991). The Production of Space. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Blackwell.
- Mennel, Barbara (2008). Cities and Cinema. London: Routledge.
- Nora, Pierre (1989). ‘Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.’ Trans. Marc Roudebush. Representations 26: 7–24.
- Rajadyyaksha, Ashish (1982). A Return to the Epic. Bombay: Screen Unit.
- Rancière, Jacques (2013). Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art. Trans. Zakir Paul. London: Verso.
- O’ Donnell, Erin (2011). ‘The IPTA on Film: Contesting memory and history in the Bengali theaterscapes of Ritwik Ghatak’s Komal Gandhar (E Flat, 1961).’ South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens. Eds Sara Dickey and Rajinder Dudrah. London: Routledge. 54–68.
- Sarkar, Bhaskar (2010). Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
- Shiel, Mark, and Fitzmaurice, Tony, eds (2011). Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Soja, Edward (1989). Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso.
- Webber, Andrew, and Wilson, Emma, eds (2007). Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis. New York, NY: Wallflower Press.