Music, Theatre & Films

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...

About the Book Television Policy offers a unique and authoritative account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 197...

This book examines, with archival images, three elements: What were the evolutionary features of Tagore’s dance-persona? What cross-cultural liaiso...

About the Book When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India's first 'bourgeois', died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled...

About the Book Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling...

About the Book This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showi...

About the Book This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, ...

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...

The Rights of Man emerged out of a student-teacher relationship. It started as an educational translation project for Neilesh Bose who, in 2001, ha...

About the Book Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly...

About the Book Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans mo...

About the Book Provincializing Bollywood argues that Bhojpuri cinema exemplifies the overflow of a provincial derivative form that defies its place...

About the Book Project Cinema City is an anthology of text and image essays, documentation transcripts, maps, graphics, annotated artworks, and fil...

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

About the Book Comprehensively covers geothermal energy systems that utilize ground energy in conjunction with heat pumps to provide sustainable he...

About the Book Religious practice and belief remain astoundingly diverse across North and South America. At a time when globalization is taken to m...

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious t...

About the Book This edited collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation an...

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communitie...

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones...

About the Book On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would hav...

Nilina’s Song is an engaging biography of the musician, Naina Devi, whose extraordinary life took her through fundamental changes of environment an...

Have you ever been enchanted by the spoken cadence of an Urdu couplet but wished you could fully understand its nuances? Have you wanted to engage ...

Music Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. This upda...

About the Book Music and Youth Culture offers a groundbreaking account of how music interacts with young people's everyday lives. Drawing on interv...

Music and Science provides an introduction and practical guidance for a scientific and systematic approach to music research. Students with a backg...

About the Book This is a study of Mozart's early life and achievement up to the age of 25. It sheds light on the composer's relationship with both ...

Mountainous Sound Spaces: Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

About the Book Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone o...

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 sco...

In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she ...

About the Book La Reine Margot is a modern film, and a big scale costume drama. Examining this film as a part of an influential cycle of French his...

The first major book on Kutiyattam—the vibrant theatre tradition that existed in India from the times of the Natya Sastra. It traces the history an...

About the Book Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practica...

Kathakali, a relatively recent performing art with a 400-year-old heritage, is one of the great artistic wonders of the world. Originating in Keral...

About the Book Best known for The Piano , Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema. Th...

About the Book Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September ...

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings toge...

About the Book With the successful twenty-first century revival of an old favourite for a new generation of viewers, this is the time to look afres...

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has contin...

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 ...

About the Book Lindsay Anderson's provocative, savage and wickedly funny 1968 masterpiece, If... , deals fundamentally--and controversially--with E...

About the Book As the world is challenged by a state of constant conflict and by disasters natural and manmade, support communities endeavor throug...

Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving di...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound ac...

About the Book This friendly guide covers the essentials a first-time recording engineer needs to know about setting up and operating a home or pro...