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Publication details [#49676]
Dissanayake, Wimal and Malti Sahai. 1991. Representation of the city in cinema: 'The Calcutta trilogy'. Asian Journal of Communication 2 (3) : 157–171. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores how communications media, and in particluar films, represent the urbanism discourse. Focusing on Satyajit Ray's Calcutta Trilogy, the paper tries to exemplify the crucial relationship between identity, time and space in a quickly evolving urban space.