Music, Theatre & Films

About the Book Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However, the ...

What were monophonic Gregorian Chants? Why did Western classical music become polyphonic during the Renaissance? What kind of music did Bach, Hande...

About the Book The first full-length study of Badal Sircar, who brought theatre to the streets and to the masses in India! Badal Sircar (1925-2011...

About the Book Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty yea...

About the Book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to th...

About the Book A very crisp yet detailed portrayal of Amitabh Bachchan's life - from his early days to date with interesting anecdotes from Mr Bach...

About the Book Abhishek Bachchan is the son of veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan, considered Indian film royalty - This book featur...

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

Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting (H.B)

Scenography is the art of ‘writing the stage space’—a visual journey of unmaking and remaking the text on a theatre space, a language of the specta...

This book proposes a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to conscious...

Losing the Plot: Political Isolation of West Bengal is a comprehensive account of West Bengal’s political history tracing the changing leadership, ...

South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across disciplines to explore...

Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975–7. Suto...

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 dec...

Filmi Jagat: A Scrapbook: Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema

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...

"Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture marks the culmination of extensive documentation and research on the cities ...

Aamir Actor, Activist, Achiever. An acclaimed actor who became the thinking man's superstar. An ardent activist who highlighted complex social issu...

Balochistan at a Crossroads is a fascinating account of Willem Marx’s travels in Balochistan. He narrates his experiences here as he goes into the ...

Kavalam Narayana Panikkar is one of India’s most revered theatre directors. He has been writing and directing plays for the last four decades and e...

Zohra Segal: ‘Fatty’ is the story of the talented actress, in the words of her daughter, Kiran. It takes the reader through the life of Zohra, her ...

Adjudged Best Book, 2007, in the Art Book category by the Federation of Indian Publishers. A chronological survey of the form and style of Odissi, ...

A technical guide providing the facets and duties of the first and second camera assistants' jobs. It explains both the practice and theory. It cov...

This book is a collection of papers presented at a colloquium on ‘AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries’ that was organized by the IIC-IRD (India Internati...

A moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose. Blues in the Blood is an ode to the sp...

Through the Lens, Brightly: Women in Cinema, Women at Work unearths how the ‘working woman’ has been presented in films directed by women. Most wom...

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 entiret...

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to...

Rabindranath Tagore composed over 2000 songs that are revered and sung by Bengalis everywhere. However, they remain mostly unknown to listeners fro...

This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it expl...

This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance’s relationship to the archive. The contributions in the volume examine how th...

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late...

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...

This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies. It experiments with forms along with the practi...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of ...

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 रीव...

Anjum Katyal’s work is the first comprehensive study on the life and contribution of Habib Tanvir to Indian theatre history. A playwright, director...

The filmdom of Bollywood has always for ages portrayed all sorts of emotions with finesse. Amidst all the cartography of emotions, the innate hidde...

The present book is primarily a biographical work with an in-depth study of the life and contribution of legendary musician Ustad Vilayat Hussain K...

New Horizons: Vijay Tendulkar’s Contribution to Modern Theatre reveals how Vijay Tendulkar endeavours to develop theatre as an object of instructio...

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 वे...