Music, Theatre & Films

भारत में सिनेमा ने ‘धर्मिकता’ से लेकर ‘नग्नता’ तक एक लम्बी दूरी तय की है। भारतीय सिनेमा की यह यात्रा सामाजिक सुधरों-सरोकारों, स्वाध्ीनता संग्राम वेफ प्रतिदायित्व बोध्, राजनैतिक, ऐतिहासिक एवं साहित्यिक प्रवृत्तियों, एंग्री यंग मैन, एण्टीहीरोइज़्म, ...

Malayalam cinema, celebrated for its outstanding accolades at the annual National Film Festivals, has carved a remarkable niche in the Indian film industry. The success story took flight with Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s critically acclaimed 1972 film, ...

An engineer by profession, an active Communist Party member, and an influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925–2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. He is kno...

Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, It continues to adapt and Grow as new technologies and reviewing platforms become av...

Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films - especially The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia - are classics of silent cinema. Like Eis...

Interview with the communist and political leader of West Bengal, India, chiefly on the 1930-1940, political situation in the state.

About the Book Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s--shadowy, black-and-white pictures about priva...

About the Book Jerzy Grotowski (1933-99) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small the...

An informative read about the incredible journey of the independent documentary film movement in India. Filming Reality explores the independent documentary film movement in India post-1970s, when it began to acquire an identity of its own and m...

About the Book The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussi...

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history a...

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and philosophy, a brilliant calligraphist, a mystic, as well as a poet, it is the 'madness' that earned ...

Utpal Dutt (1929–93), playwright, director and actor, an inspiration and role model for the activist theatre person. Whether through the proscenium theatre, street performance, the traditional strolling theatre-in-the-round, or cinema, Dutt tried ...

Anjum Katyal’s work is the first comprehensive study on the life and contribution of Habib Tanvir to Indian theatre history. A playwright, director, actor, journalist and critic, Tanvir is perhaps best known for the play Charandas Chor. However, h...

"Tyagaraja (1767-1847) is undoubtedly South India's most celebrated musician-saint. His songs, remarkable for their beauty as well as for their sheer volume, have been a source of inspiration to countless generations of Hindus. This study attempts...

This book addresses the mutual relationship between literature and film in the Indian context involving three iconic figures of Indian cultural life: Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, and Satyajit Ray. Drawing upon the insights of leading academics ...

This book traces the adaptation of the traditional music in south India, from the quiet courtyards of Tanjore to the concert halls of Madras, to the necessities of colonial and post-colonial social realities. An engaging narrative of the productio...

One of the great thinkers of Indian cinema, Javed Akhtar needs no introduction. As a screenplay writer, he and Salim Khan wrote the dialogue for blockbusters like Zanjeer, Deewar, and Sholay; as a songwriter, he has composed a huge variety of song...

The DSLR cinema revolution began over ten years ago. Professional filmmakers, students, video journalists, event video shooters, production houses, and others jumped at the opportunity to shoot cinematic images on these low budget cameras. The fir...

Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th-century cinema into one indispensable guide to movi...

Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a vibrant and growing field, often hailed as a "new wave" but largely overlooked in critical discourse. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary Marathi films, exploring their textual, ind...

“बिस्मिल्लाह ख़ान - बनारस के उस्ताद» वह किताब है जो पाठकों को भारत के सबसे महान कलाकारों में से एक के दिल और घर-परिवार ही नहीं उनके ख़्याल और मौसीकी से भी रू-ब-रू करती है। यह डुमरांव जैसे छोटे क़स्बे से बनारस और फिर दुनिया तक के सफ़र को बयां करती है...

About the Book The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she create...

About the Book Yasmine Beverly Rana's The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of S...

About the Book An analysis of Bimal Roy’s films and their depiction of people outside the ‘mainstream’ The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An ‘Outsider’ Within examines Roy’s adaptations of Bengali and Hindi literary classics while dwelling on his approach a...

About the Book The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression, the intensification of the crisis of democracy that began after the war,...

About the Book This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turke...

About the Book Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, Sailing on the Sea of Love is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul --a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul so...

About the Book Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans more than four decades, producing works that range from the realist to the symbolic, expressionist to ...

About the Book Comprehensively covers geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunction with heat pumps to provide sustainable heating and cooling The book describes geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunc...

About the Book Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowlDespite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafn...

In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she highlights the enthusiastic response Indian popular films and their stars received from the Soviet a...

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in modern technology, there has been the exponenti...

First comprehensive account of the seven-decade long journey of the Film Society Movement in India, and how it helped Indian cinema come into its own. Till 1950s, 80 % of the films screened in India were from Hollywood. Today, only 10 % films sh...

About the Book - Translated from French, this non-fiction on Indian dance theatre provides both an insider's and an outsider's perspective. The author-Katia L geret-Manochhaya - narrates her real life experiences with the art forms she learned in ...

Study of why theatre has not developed in Pakistan, and then evaluates the parallel theatre, sponsered by intellectuals, cultural activists. Also sections on issues of gender

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which wou...

Everything: and other performance texts from Germany, Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theatre collective working today: and company andco., gob squad, rimini protokoll, she pop and showcase beat Le M...

“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest,” wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures and visionary symbolism. Time within Time is both a diary ...

Awaara, Sholay, Deewar, Hum Apke Hain Koun. . !, 3 Idiots. The success stories of these cult films are not only well known, but have also benchmarked a specific kind of cinema that exerts a far-reaching appeal. Often misunderstood to represent all...

Mohammed Albakry is professor of English and applied linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. Rebekah Maggor is assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

Before Mohammed Rafi there can only be a Zero and after him there can be only Two. That should succinctly describe the legendary singer of four decades whose rise to stardom was phenomenal. Indeed, Rafi was bigger than many of the stars who lip-sy...

Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema, 1912- 1934 in its new avatar celebrates the centenary of Indian cinema and the release of Dadasaheb Phalke and rsquo;s Raja Harishchandra in1913 . It provides a close-up view of the nascent days of Indian filmm...

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us...

A collection of two plays by Indian playwright Satish Alekar. Satish Alekar is widely considered one of the most progressive and influential playwrights in modern Indian theatre. This volume brings together two of Alekar’s plays written over hal...

The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music introduces readers to the key theoretical principles, concepts, and research findings about learning and how these concepts and principles can be applied in the music classroom. Beginning with an over...

A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time. Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard’s career as a dramatist. The plays collected in this long-awaited addition to B...

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement ...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक रीवा के संगीत के महान संस्थापकों तथा उनकी संगीत शैली पर प्रकाश डालती है। रीवा की संगीत परंपरा का बहुत विशेष स्थान रहा है। आज भी रीवा के मंदिर प्रामाणिक रूप से विद्यमान हैं, जिनमें संगीत की साधना की जाती थी। ऐसा माना जाता है कि संगी...

The filmdom of Bollywood has always for ages portrayed all sorts of emotions with finesse. Amidst all the cartography of emotions, the innate hidden world of gay’s life has never been shown with perfection for a long time, except in a very few fil...

A comprehensive introduction to film music, this book provides a concise and illuminating summary of the process of film scoring, as well as a succinct overview of the rich history of contemporary film music. 　

Chatty and informal, this book opens a window to the life and work of some of the legendary figures in Indian cinema. From golden era greats like Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar to leading ladies like Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Rekha, and Shabana Azmi to ...

Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the "popular" i...

I, Durga Khote is the account of the life and work of an actress who entered the world of Indian films when women from respectable families were still forbidden to do so. Durga Khote, one of the most respected actresses of Hindi and Marathi cinema...

"From reviews Prasad's indefatigable - and at times quite inventive - scrutiny of post-Independence Hindi cinema is formidable in its scholarship, focused (almost narrowly so) in setting out its theoretical framework, admirable in its research, ac...

Theatres of India, edited by Professor Ananda Lal, is a comprehensive and accessible guide to theatre in India. The volume surveys both rural and urban modes of Indian theatre across its history of over 2000 years. The first section brings togethe...

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music'...