Author Archive for: ‘Brian Shoesmith’

CineBlitz, Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema. VJM Media: Mumbai, 2009 ISBN: 978-81-908829-0-5 US$40 (hb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by D.K.Agencies) Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema (hereafter LLHC) is a glossy coffee table book comprising a fabulous collection of stills from a variety of Hindi films over a period of time, a selection of quotes on the topics of love, lust …

Bhaskar Sarkar, Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4411-7 US$25.95 (pb) 372pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Mourning the Nation is an important and timely book that seeks to explore the impact of the 1947 partition of British India on Indian filmmaking. In order to grasp the …

Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (eds), Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4579-4 US$25.00 (pb) 340pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) My local community arts centre now offers Bollywood Dhamarka every Thursday. The South Asian population of the suburb is minimal so who are the participants of this fun-filled hour? …

Indian Film Books Gayatri Chatterjee, Mother India. London: BFI Publishing. 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 917 6, 96pp, £8.99 (pb) Rachel Dwyer, Yash Chopra. London: BFI Publishing. 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 875 7, 202 pp, £13.99 (pb) (Review copies supplied by the British Film Institute) The publication of both of these books coincided with the “Imagine Asia: a celebration of South Asian film” event, held …