• Biographies (15) • Autobiographies (6) • Encyclopedias (1) • Dictionaries (2) • Essays (29) • Film Reviews (9) • Studies (153) • Interviews (3) • Stories (12) • Didactic (1) • Filmmakers' writings (2) • Adapted novel (1)
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The Maker of Filmmakers (2025)
How Jagat Murari and FTII Changed Indian Cinema Forever
by Radha Chadha
Publisher: Viking
Subject: Director > Jagat Murari
Satyajit Ray (2022)
The Man Who Knew too Much
by Barun Chanda
Publisher: Om Books International
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
An Actor's Actor (2022)
An Authorized Biography of Sanjeev Kumar
by Hanif Zaveri
Publisher: Ebury Press
Subject: Actor > Sanjeev Kumar
Satyajit Ray (2021)
The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Mysteries of the Mundane (2019)
The Films of Girish Kasaravalli
by John W. Hood
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Subject: Director > Girish Kasaravalli
Human Cinema (2018)
The Films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee
by Rammesh
Publisher: Notion Press
Subject: Director > Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Rituparno Ghosh (2017)
Cinema, gender and art
Dir. Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Rituparno Ghosh
Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer (2017)
A Biography of Soumendu Roy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Others persons > Soumendu Roy
Music, Masti, Modernity (2016)
The Cinema of Nasir Husain
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Subject: Director > Nasir Husain
Zikr (2023)
In The Light and Shade of Time
by Muzaffar Ali
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Director > Muzaffar Ali
A Patchwork Quilt (2020)
A Collage of My Creative Life
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Director > Sai Paranjpye
Guns and Thighs (2015)
The Story of My Life
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Subject: Director > Ram Gopal Varma
Bollywood FAQ (2019)
All That's Left to Know about the Greatest Film Story Never Told
by Piyush Roy
Publisher: Applause Books
Behind the Scenes (2017)
Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema
Dir. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
The Epistemic Archaeology of Ashish Avikunthak (2025)
Cinema and Religiosity of Everyday Life
Dir. Erin O'Donnell and Šarūnas Paunksnis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Ashish Avikunthak
Indian Cinema and Human Rights (2024)
An Intersectional Tale
Dir. Adam Dubin, Ruchira Goswami and Ishita Sharma
Publisher: Springer
Explorations in Cinema through Classical Indian Theories (2021)
New Interpretations of Meaning, Aesthetics, and Art
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Theory
Bollywood's New Woman (2021)
Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies
Dir. Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Shyam Benegal (2021)
Filmmaker and Philosopher
by Samir Chopra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis (2020)
Culture, Aesthetics and Vision
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Director > Ritwik Ghatak
Dancing with the Nation (2019)
Courtesans in Bombay Cinema
by Ruth Vanita
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pop Empires (2019)
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Dir. S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta and Robert Ji-Song Ku
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
A Gandhian Affair (2019)
India's Curious Portrayal of Love in Cinema
by Sanjay Suri
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Three Classic Films by Gulzar (2019)
Insights into the Films
by Saba Mahmood Bashir, Sathya Saran and Mira Hashmi
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Satyajit Ray's Heroes and Heroines (2019)
by Amitava Nag
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Indian Cinema (2019)
Filmic Content, Social Interface and New Technologies
by Vikrant Kishore and Ambrish Saxena
Publisher: Kanishka Publishers
Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema (2019)
From Cacophony of Voices of Euphony of Verses
Dir. Manish Kumar C. Mishra and Manjeet Maan
Publisher: Kanishka Publishers
Voices of the Talking Stars (2017)
Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond
Dir. Madhuja Mukherjee
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
India on the Western Screen (2016)
Imaging a Country in Film, TV, and Digital Media
by Ananda Mitra
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
A Very Old Machine (2016)
The Many Origins of the Cinema in India
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Unmediated (2014)
Essays on Media, Culture, Cinema
by Sashi Kumar
Publisher: Tulika Books
Subject: Sociology
Project Cinema City (2013)
Dir. Madhusree Dutta, Bhaumik Kaushik and Rohan Shivkumar
Publisher: Tulika Books
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010)
by Keya Ganguly
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Looking For The Big B (2007)
Bollywood, Bachchan, and Me
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Actor > Amitabh Bachchan
The Films of Shyam Benegal (2024)
Dir. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
The Films of Zoya Akhtar (2024)
Dir. Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Zoya Akhtar
100 Essential Indian Films (2018)
by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Sangeeta Datta
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India (2017)
The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth
Publisher: Routledge
The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2015)
A Cinema of Emancipation
Publisher: Anthem Press
Subject: Director > Adoor Gopalakrishnan
The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema (2025)
Voice, Body, Technology
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency (2025)
Histories and Afterlives
Dir. Parichay Patra and Dibyakusum Ray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema (2025)
Publisher: Routledge
Failed Masculinities (2025)
The Men in Satyajit Ray's Films
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
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
Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective (2024)
India-Europe Film Connections
by Krzysztof Stachowiak, Hania Janta, Jani Kozina and Therese Sunngren-Granlund
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
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
Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West (2024)
Familiar Strangers
Dir. Varsha Panjwani
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow (2024)
Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences
by S. V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan, Subhajit Chatterjee and Omita Goyal
Publisher: Routledge
Rated A (2024)
Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Porn films
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
Shyam Benegal (2024)
FilmMaker of the Real India
Publisher: Paper Missile
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India (2023)
‘Benevolent' Sexism and Disguised Discrimination
Dir. Francis Philip Barclay and Kaifia Ancer Laskar
Publisher: Routledge
Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema (2023)
The Women in Satyajit Ray's Films
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Basu Chatterji (2023)
And Middle-of-the-Road Cinema
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Director > Basu Chatterji
Listening With a Feminist Ear (2023)
Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India (2023)
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
Dir. Swapna Gopinath and Rutuja Deshmukh
Publisher: Routledge
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
Appreciating Melodrama (2022)
Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television
by Piyush Roy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Countries
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
The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema (2021)
Dir. Ajay Gehlawat and Rajinder Dudrah
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries
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
Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (2020)
Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media
Dir. Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee
Publisher: Routledge
South Asian Filmscapes (2020)
Transregional Encounters
Dir. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (2020)
Publisher: Primus Books
The Cloud-Capped Star (2020)
(Meghe Dhaka Tara)
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: One Film > The Cloud-Capped Star
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
Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry (2020)
Globalizing Pakistani Identity
by Dina Khdair
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > South Asia
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
Filming the Line of Control (2019)
The Indo–Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens
Dir. Meenakshi Bharat and Nirmal Kumar
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > South Asia
The Indian Partition in Literature and Films (2019)
History, Politics, and Aesthetics
Dir. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > South Asia
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
This is How We Dance Now! (2017)
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India (2017)
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal's Films
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Shyam Benegal
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India (2017)
Entertaining the Raj
by Babli Sinha
Publisher: Routledge
Music in Contemporary Indian Film (2016)
Memory, Voice, Identity
Dir. Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin
Publisher: Routledge
The Apu Trilogy (2016)
New Edition
by Robin Wood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: One Film > The Apu Trilogy
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
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
Amar Akbar Anthony (2016)
Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation
by William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke and Andy Rotman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: One Film > Amar Akbar Anthony
Outside the Lettered City (2015)
Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Bread Beauty Revolution (2015)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 1914-1987
by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Syeda Hameed
Publisher: Tulika Books
Subject: Director > Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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
Film and Politics in India (2015)
Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power
Publisher: Peter Lang
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
The Slumdog Phenomenon (2014)
A Critical Anthology
Dir. Ajay Gehlawat
Publisher: Anthem Press
Subject: One Film > Slumdog Millionaire
The Urian Anthology 2000 - 2009 (2014)
The Rise of the Philippine New Wave Indie Film
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani (2014)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Kumar Shahani
The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium (2014)
Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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
From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond (2010)
Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century
by Vijaya Mulay
Publisher: Seagull Books
Subject: Sociology
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
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
The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (2000)
Between Tradition and Modernity
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics (1999)
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Publisher: Duke University Press
India Retold (2023)
Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India
Dir. Rajesh James
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
I Know the Psychology of Rats (2023)
by Saeed Mirza
Publisher: Tulika Books
Subject: Director > Kundan Shah
The Bitter-Sweet Cocktail (2022)
Movies, Music, Wine, Women, The Life and Times of C. Ramchandra
Publisher: Independant
Urban Naxals (2018)
The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam
Publisher: Garuda Publications
Subject: One Film > Buddha in a Traffic Jam
India's Film Society Movement (2017)
The Journey and its Impact
by V.K. Cherian
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
The Apu Trilogy (2010)
Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: One Film > The Apu Trilogy
Montage (2018)
Life, Politics, Cinema
by Mrinal Sen
Publisher: Seagull Books
Subject: Director > Mrinal Sen
Kumar Shahani (2015)
The Shock of Desire and Other Essays
by Kumar Shahani and Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher: Tulika Books
Subject: Director > Kumar Shahani
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