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  • Bollywood and the First Decade of Independence

    Seven Directors in Search of a Nation

    by Devapriya Sanyal ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyzes the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947.The selection of key filmmakers instead of cinema in general shows individual trajectories within cinema. The book examines the change in preoccupations or representations in the work of a single filmmaker, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

    Essays in Critical Perspectives

    by Tajuddin Ahmed, Sharada Allamneni, Risha Baruah, Debajyoti Biswas, Sonalika Chaturvedi, Shruti Das, Joydip Ghosh, Samrat Laskar, Debabrata Modak, Dheeraj Pandey, Ashwarya Samkaria0, Devapriya Sanyal1, Tarakeshwar Senapati2, Dona Soman3, Sk Tarik Ali4, Renu Bhadola Dangwal5, Richa Joshi Pandey6, Roshan Raj Singh7, Goutam Buddha Sural8, Joyjit Ghosh9, Samit Kumar Maiti1, Scott Slovic3, Shreya Bhattacharji5 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Failed Masculinities

    by Devapriya Sanyal ...
    Satyajit Ray belonged to a category of filmmakers and artists from newly independent countries whose work was used to define 'national culture'. Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray's Films argues that a study of his films will give us a purchase on the moral trajectory of India in its first few decades of independence, particularly through examination of his male characters and their ... Read more

    $104.49 USD

  • Salman Khan

    The Man, The Actor, The Legend

    by Devapriya Sanyal ...
    A name that's synonymous with packed theatres shouting his name and crowds of young men cheering for him, Salman Khan has been reigning in the popular imagination for three decades now. However, superstardom came with its share of troubles. Salman has found himself in the news once too often, almost as though he were controversy's favourite child. Endlessly discussed as well as criticised, he is ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema

    The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films

    by Devapriya Sanyal ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India.The book explores the portrayal of women in the context of the creation of national culture after India became independent. Gender issues were very important to India under Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s – with the enactment of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer

    A Biography of Soumendu Roy

    by Devapriya Sanyal ...
    Soumendu Roy today is widely known for his long association with Satyajit Ray. He was Ray's cinematographer for a generation of films that is celebrated the world around even now. Witness to a great genius, Roy also carved a niche for himself in his own right, working with other stalwarts of Bengali cinema like Tapan Sinha and Buddhadeb Dasgupta, among others. Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Rishi Kapoor Uncensored

    by Rishi Kapoor, Meena Iyer ...
    Son of a famous father. Father of a famous son. I am the hyphen between them.Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc: from the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty ninety-year-old (Kapoor & Sons, 2016), Rishi Kapoor has regaled audiences for close to fifty years. He won a National ... Read more

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  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • King of Bollywood

    Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema

    by Anupama Chopra ...
    Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India, and one man's struggle to become a star. Shah Rukh Khan's larger than life tale takes us through the colorful and idiosyncratic Bollywood movie industry, where fantastic dreams and outrageous obsessions share the spotlight with extortion, ... Read more

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  • Home in the World

    A Memoir

    by Amartya Sen ...
    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in ... Read more

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  • Dilip Kumar

    The Substance and the Shadow

    by Dilip Kumar ...
    An authentic, heartfelt and compelling narrative – straight from the horse’s mouth – that reveals for the first time numerous unknown aspects of the life and times of one of the greatest legends of all time who stands out as a symbol of secular India.Dilip Kumar (born as Yousuf Khan), who began as a diffident novice in Hindi cinema in the early 1940s, went on to attain the pinnacle of stardom ... Read more

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  • Sculpting the Middle Class

    History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

    by Deepa Sreenivas ...
    This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century. ... Read more

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