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Scripting Bollywood (2021)
Candid Conversations with Women Who Write Hindi Cinema
by Anubha Yadav
Publisher: Women Unlimited
> Other books on the subject of India:
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency (2025)
Histories and Afterlives
Dir. Parichay Patra and Dibyakusum Ray
Déjà Viewed (2025)
Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema
The Revolution of Indian Parallel Cinema in the Global South (1968–1995) (2025)
From Feminism to Iconoclasm
by Omar Ahmed
Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema (2025)
Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation
A History of India's North-East Cinema (2025)
Deconstructing the Stereotypes
Contemporary Marathi Cinema (2024)
Space, Marginality, and Aspiration
Centring Women in Bollywood Biopics (2024)
Empowerment and Agency in Contemporary Indian Cinema
Visual Anthropology of Indian Films (2024)
Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond
Dir. Pankaj Jain
Popular Cinema in Bengal (2024)
Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
Dir. Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi
Hindi Cinema and Pakistan (2024)
Screening the Idea and the Reality
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow (2024)
Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences
by S. V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan, Subhajit Chatterjee and Omita Goyal
Resistance in Indian Documentary Film (2024)
Aesthetics, Culture and Practice
Dir. Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray
Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity (2024)
Production, Representation, and Reception
The Cultural Industries of India (2024)
Dir. Rohit K. Dasgupta and Clelia Clini
Ways of Remembering (2024)
Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India
The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood (2024)
Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity
Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India (2023)
‘Benevolent' Sexism and Disguised Discrimination
Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema (2023)
Approximate Terms and Concepts
John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky (2023)
Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers
Bombay Talkies (2023)
An Unseen History of Indian Cinema
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India (2023)
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
Dir. Swapna Gopinath and Rutuja Deshmukh
Beyond Bollywood (2022)
2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region
Dir. Forrest McGill
Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality (2022)
A History
A Companion to Indian Cinema (2022)
Dir. Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar
Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
Caste, Gender and Technology
Dir. Selvaraj Velayutham and Vijay Devadas
Contested Representation (2022)
Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public Sphere
Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories (2022)
by Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen
The Bitter-Sweet Cocktail (2022)
Movies, Music, Wine, Women, The Life and Times of C. Ramchandra
Provincializing Bollywood (2021)
Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures (2021)
Film and History in the Postcolony
Bollywood's New Woman (2021)
Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies
Dir. Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
Shadow Craft (2021)
Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema
by Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind
Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (2020)
Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media
Dir. Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee
Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood (2020)
The New Independent Cinema Revolution
Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas (2020)
"Local Habitations"
Dir. Poonam Trivedi and Paromita Chakravarti
Bombay Hustle (2020)
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Unruly Cinema (2020)
History, Politics, and Bollywood
Partition Literature and Cinema (2020)
A Critical Introduction
Dir. Jaydip Sarkar and Rupayan Mukherjee
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities (2019)
New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India
Popular Hindi Cinema (2019)
Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen
Indian Horror Cinema (2019)
(En)gendering the Monstrous
Deities and Devotees (2019)
Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India
Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers (2018)
Independence in Practice
Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India (2018)
Globalizing Muscular Nationalism
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema (2018)
A Freedom Incomplete
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (2018)
Dir. K. Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake
Documentary Film in India (2017)
An Anthropological History
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India (2017)
The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth
This is How We Dance Now! (2017)
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
Haunting Bollywood (2017)
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
by Meheli Sen
Music in Contemporary Indian Film (2016)
Memory, Voice, Identity
Dir. Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin
A Very Old Machine (2016)
The Many Origins of the Cinema in India
Premchand in World Languages (2016)
Translation, reception and cinematic representations
Dir. M. Asaduddin
Outside the Lettered City (2015)
Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
Bollywood and Globalization (2015)
The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema
Dir. David J. Schaefer and Kavita Karan
Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema (2015)
Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination
Bollywood and Postmodernism (2015)
Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century
Mad Tales from Bollywood (2015)
Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema
Film and Politics in India (2015)
Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power
Seduced by the Familiar (2015)
Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Gender, Culture, and Performance (2014)
Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence
Bollywood Sounds (2014)
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium (2014)
Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation
Bollywood Travels (2014)
Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
Project Cinema City (2013)
Dir. Madhusree Dutta, Bhaumik Kaushik and Rohan Shivkumar
From Bombay to Bollywood (2013)
The Making of a Global Media Industry
Producing Bollywood (2012)
Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry
Conjugations (2012)
Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
Bipolar Identity (2011)
Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film
Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood (2011)
The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema
Dir. Rachel Dwyer and Jerry Pinto
Bollywood and Globalization (2011)
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Dir. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Framing the Nation (2011)
Languages of 'Modernity' in India
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! (2009)
Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
Mourning the Nation (2009)
Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
Behind the Curtain (2008)
Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
Understanding Indian Movies (2008)
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Fingerprinting Popular Culture (2007)
The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema
by Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy
Cinema at the End of Empire (2006)
A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
The Cinematic ImagiNation (2003)
Indian Popular Films as Social History
Ideology of the Hindi Film (2001)
A Historical Construction
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics (1999)
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema (1994)
1947-1987
> Other books related to India:
The Horror in Hindi Cinema (2024)
Between the Mythic and the Monstrous
Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective (2024)
India-Europe Film Connections
by Krzysztof Stachowiak, Hania Janta, Jani Kozina and Therese Sunngren-Granlund
Subject: Sociology
The Films of Shyam Benegal (2024)
Dir. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West (2024)
Familiar Strangers
Dir. Varsha Panjwani
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Films of Zoya Akhtar (2024)
Dir. Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields
Subject: Director > Zoya Akhtar
Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema (2023)
The Women in Satyajit Ray's Films
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Listening With a Feminist Ear (2023)
Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
India Retold (2023)
Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India
Dir. Rajesh James
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Appreciating Melodrama (2022)
Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television
by Piyush Roy
Subject: Countries
An Actor's Actor (2022)
An Authorized Biography of Sanjeev Kumar
by Hanif Zaveri
Subject: Actor > Sanjeev Kumar
Satyajit Ray (2021)
The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema (2021)
Dir. Ajay Gehlawat and Rajinder Dudrah
Subject: Countries
South Asian Filmscapes (2020)
Transregional Encounters
Dir. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry (2020)
Globalizing Pakistani Identity
by Dina Khdair
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Filming the Line of Control (2019)
The Indo–Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens
Dir. Meenakshi Bharat and Nirmal Kumar
Subject: Countries > South Asia
The Indian Partition in Literature and Films (2019)
History, Politics, and Aesthetics
Dir. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Rituparno Ghosh (2017)
Cinema, gender and art
Dir. Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta
Subject: Director > Rituparno Ghosh
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India (2017)
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal's Films
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
Amar Akbar Anthony (2016)
Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation
by William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke and Andy Rotman
Subject: One Film > Amar Akbar Anthony
Bread Beauty Revolution (2015)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 1914-1987
by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Syeda Hameed
Subject: Director > Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Kumar Shahani (2015)
The Shock of Desire and Other Essays
by Kumar Shahani and Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Subject: Director > Kumar Shahani
The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2015)
A Cinema of Emancipation
Subject: Director > Adoor Gopalakrishnan
The Slumdog Phenomenon (2014)
A Critical Anthology
Dir. Ajay Gehlawat
Subject: One Film > Slumdog Millionaire
The Urian Anthology 2000 - 2009 (2014)
The Rise of the Philippine New Wave Indie Film
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010)
by Keya Ganguly
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond (2010)
Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century
by Vijaya Mulay
Subject: Sociology
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