Music, Theatre & Films

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...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop...

Set in Calcutta in the immediate aftermath of the Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the...

Singers die twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known Exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad sing...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner’s guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork®, a method that focu...

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound i...

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary int...

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...

Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German Dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, heiner Müller (1929–95) still remains relati...

During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain....

The work of German poet frederich Hölderlin (1770–1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Mart...

Citizens of Tokyo the first collection in English of plays by one of Japanese most important contemporary playwrightsoriza hirata, whose works have...

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt school of critical theory, he began his career as a composer and su...

Everything: and other performance texts from Germany, Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theatre colle...

Lata Mangeshkar: ... in her own voice

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the Jun...

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in r...

“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest,” wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual im...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theo...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

‘New Bollywood’ has arrived, but its postmodern impulse often leaves film scholars reluctant to theorise its aesthetics. How do we define the style...

One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , I...

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

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...

Books and Movies, translated from the original Marathi bestseller Not Gone with the Wind, is a fascinating journey into the world of legendary auth...

This ultimate collection on Natyacharya Sisir Kumar Bhaduri includes snippets of history from 19th century Bengali theatre and also commentaries of...

From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street the...

This book provides a historical understanding of the Indian Audio-Visual media. It asserts that media is essential to the bourgeois domination of a...

This volume attempts to address some of the questions that arise when considering the complex role that cinema has performed and continues to perfo...

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 ...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...

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 ...