The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema (2025)
Voice, Body, Technology
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood (2025)
Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity
Publisher: Intellect Books
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency (2025)
Histories and Afterlives
Dir. Parichay Patra and Dibyakusum Ray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Déjà Viewed (2025)
Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema (2025)
Publisher: Routledge
The Revolution of Indian Parallel Cinema in the Global South (1968–1995) (2025)
From Feminism to Iconoclasm
by Omar Ahmed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema (2025)
Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation
Publisher: Routledge
A History of India's North-East Cinema (2025)
Deconstructing the Stereotypes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pre-Partition Punjab's Contribution to Indian Cinema (2024)
Publisher: Routledge
Centring Women in Bollywood Biopics (2024)
Empowerment and Agency in Contemporary Indian Cinema
by Chandrava Chakravarty and Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
Publisher: Routledge
Visual Anthropology of Indian Films (2024)
Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond
Dir. Pankaj Jain
Publisher: Routledge
Popular Cinema in Bengal (2024)
Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
Dir. Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi
Publisher: Routledge
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow (2024)
Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences
by S. V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan, Subhajit Chatterjee and Omita Goyal
Publisher: Routledge
Resistance in Indian Documentary Film (2024)
Aesthetics, Culture and Practice
Dir. Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity (2024)
Production, Representation, and Reception
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing (2024)
Publisher: Routledge
Indian Indies (2024)
A Guide to New Independent Indian Cinema
by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher: Routledge
The Routledge Companion to Caste and Film in India (2024)
Dir. Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak
Publisher: Routledge
Ways of Remembering (2024)
Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Tear-Drenched Earth (2024)
Cinema and the Partition of India
by John W. Hood
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Seeing Things (2024)
Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
by Kartik Nair
Publisher: University of California Press
Networked Bollywood (2024)
How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
by Swapnil Rai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Celluloid Chronicles (2023)
A Comprehensive History of Bengali Cinema with a Little Dash of World Cinema: 1890s to Now...
by Sayan Sarkar
Publisher: Independant
Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India (2023)
‘Benevolent' Sexism and Disguised Discrimination
Dir. Francis Philip Barclay and Kaifia Ancer Laskar
Publisher: Routledge
The Millennial Woman in Bollywood (2023)
A New 'Brand'?
by Maithili Rao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
When Ardh Satya met Himmatwala (2023)
the many lives of 1980s' Bombay cinema
by Avijit Ghosh
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India (2023)
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
Dir. Swapna Gopinath and Rutuja Deshmukh
Publisher: Routledge
Bollywood, Box Office and Beyond (2023)
The Evolving Business of Indian Cinema
by Lata Jha
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Beyond Bollywood (2022)
2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region
Dir. Forrest McGill
Publisher: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
A Companion to Indian Cinema (2022)
Dir. Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
Caste, Gender and Technology
Dir. Selvaraj Velayutham and Vijay Devadas
Publisher: Routledge
Contested Representation (2022)
Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public Sphere
Publisher: Lexington Books
Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories (2022)
by Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen
Publisher: Intellect Books
Provincializing Bollywood (2021)
Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures (2021)
Film and History in the Postcolony
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India (2021)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Bollywood Does Battle (2021)
The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination
by Samir Chopra
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Shadow Craft (2021)
Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema
by Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (2020)
Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media
Dir. Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee
Publisher: Routledge
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (2020)
Publisher: Primus Books
Dancing Women (2020)
Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema
by Usha Iyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood (2020)
The New Independent Cinema Revolution
Dir. Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher: Routledge
Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas (2020)
"Local Habitations"
Dir. Poonam Trivedi and Paromita Chakravarti
Publisher: Routledge
Indian Movie Entrepreneurship (2020)
Not just song and dance
by Rajeev Kamineni and Ruth Rentschler
Publisher: Routledge
Partition Literature and Cinema (2020)
A Critical Introduction
Dir. Jaydip Sarkar and Rupayan Mukherjee
Publisher: Routledge
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities (2019)
New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Deities and Devotees (2019)
Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Reel and the Real (2019)
Portrayal of Gay Men in Bollywood Films
by Himadri Roy
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers
Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers (2018)
Independence in Practice
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
India's New Independent Cinema (2018)
Rise of the Hybrid
by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher: Routledge
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (2018)
Dir. K. Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher: Routledge
Staging British South Asian Culture (2017)
Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre
by Jerri Daboo
Publisher: Routledge
This is How We Dance Now! (2017)
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India (2017)
Entertaining the Raj
by Babli Sinha
Publisher: Routledge
Haunting Bollywood (2017)
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
by Meheli Sen
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Music in Contemporary Indian Film (2016)
Memory, Voice, Identity
Dir. Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin
Publisher: Routledge
Her Majestic Voice (2016)
South Indian Female Playback Singers and Stardom, 1945-1955
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Visions of Development (2016)
Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Premchand in World Languages (2016)
Translation, reception and cinematic representations
Dir. M. Asaduddin
Publisher: Routledge
Salaam Bollywood (2016)
Representations and interpretations
Dir. Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
Publisher: Routledge India
Show Me Your Words (2016)
The Power of Language in Bollywood
by Connie Haham
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Fantasy of Modernity (2016)
Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s
by Aarti Wani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A Fly in the Curry (2016)
Independent Documentary Film in India
by K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Outside the Lettered City (2015)
Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Dream Machine (2015)
Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema
by Samir Dayal
Publisher: Temple University Press
Bollywood and Globalization (2015)
The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema
Dir. David J. Schaefer and Kavita Karan
Publisher: Routledge
The 1970s and its Legacies in India's Cinemas (2015)
Dir. Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah
Publisher: Routledge
Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema (2015)
Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination
Publisher: Routledge
Bollywood and Postmodernism (2015)
Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Mad Tales from Bollywood (2015)
Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema
Publisher: Routledge
Film and Politics in India (2015)
Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power
Publisher: Peter Lang
Orienting Hollywood (2015)
A Century of Film Culture Between Los Angeles and Bombay
by Nitin Govil
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Bombay before Bollywood (2015)
Film City Fantasies
by Rosie Thomas
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Seduced by the Familiar (2015)
Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Gender, Culture, and Performance (2014)
Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence
Publisher: Routledge
Travels of Bollywood Cinema (2014)
:From Bombay to LA
Dir. Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Bollywood Sounds (2014)
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium (2014)
Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Bollywood Travels (2014)
Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
Publisher: Routledge
Bollywood's India (2014)
Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India
by Rachel Dwyer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
The Multiplex in India (2014)
A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure
by Adrian Athique and Douglas Hill
Publisher: Routledge
From Bombay to Bollywood (2013)
The Making of a Global Media Industry
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Producing Bollywood (2012)
Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry
Publisher: Duke University Press
Bipolar Identity (2011)
Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood (2011)
The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema
Dir. Rachel Dwyer and Jerry Pinto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Bollywood and Globalization (2011)
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Dir. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Publisher: Anthem Press
Bollywood in the Age of New Media (2010)
The Geo-televisual Aesthetic
by Anustup Basu
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema (2009)
Recasting Classics
Dir. Heidi R. M. Pauwels
Publisher: Routledge
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! (2009)
Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Untimely Bollywood (2009)
Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage
by Amit S. Rai
Publisher: Duke University Press
Tamil Cinema (2009)
The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
Dir. Selvaraj Velayutham
Publisher: Routledge
Understanding Indian Movies (2008)
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Global Bollywood (2008)
Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Dir. Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Limiting Secularism (2008)
The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film
by Priya Kumar
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Fingerprinting Popular Culture (2007)
The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema
by Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cinema at the End of Empire (2006)
A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
Publisher: Duke University Press
The Cinematic ImagiNation (2003)
Indian Popular Films as Social History
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics (1999)
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Indian Cinema and Human Rights (2024)
An Intersectional Tale
Dir. Adam Dubin, Ruchira Goswami and Ishita Sharma
Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema (2023)
Approximate Terms and Concepts
John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky (2023)
Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers
Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema (2023)
Looking through their Gaze
The Bitter-Sweet Cocktail (2022)
Movies, Music, Wine, Women, The Life and Times of C. Ramchandra
Bollywood's New Woman (2021)
Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies
Dir. Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema (2020)
Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times
Dir. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Clare M. Wilkinson
Consuming Cultural Hegemony (2019)
Bollywood in Bangladesh
Popular Hindi Cinema (2019)
Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen
Indian Cinema (2019)
Filmic Content, Social Interface and New Technologies
by Vikrant Kishore and Ambrish Saxena
Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema (2019)
From Cacophony of Voices of Euphony of Verses
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In a Cult of Their Own (2018)
Bollywood Beyond Box Office
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Popular Cinema and Politics in South India (2017)
The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth
Behind the Scenes (2017)
Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema
Dir. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John
A Very Old Machine (2016)
The Many Origins of the Cinema in India
Project Cinema City (2013)
Dir. Madhusree Dutta, Bhaumik Kaushik and Rohan Shivkumar
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Cinema and Religiosity of Everyday Life
Dir. Erin O'Donnell and Šarūnas Paunksnis
Subject: Director > Ashish Avikunthak
The Maker of Filmmakers (2025)
How Jagat Murari and FTII Changed Indian Cinema Forever
by Radha Chadha
Subject: Director > Jagat Murari
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
Explorations in Cinema through Classical Indian Theories (2021)
New Interpretations of Meaning, Aesthetics, and Art
Subject: Theory
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
Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis (2020)
Culture, Aesthetics and Vision
Subject: Director > Ritwik Ghatak
Mysteries of the Mundane (2019)
The Films of Girish Kasaravalli
by John W. Hood
Subject: Director > Girish Kasaravalli
Pop Empires (2019)
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Dir. S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta and Robert Ji-Song Ku
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
Three Classic Films by Gulzar (2019)
Insights into the Films
Human Cinema (2018)
The Films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee
by Rammesh
Subject: Director > Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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
The Cinema of Bimal Roy (2017)
An ′Outsider′ Within
Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer (2017)
A Biography of Soumendu Roy
Subject: Others persons > Soumendu Roy
Filming Horror (2016)
Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies
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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