King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, Hardcover - Anupama Chopra

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Reducere. Indian cinema completed a century in 2013. The centenary was marked by special events celebrating cinema over the last century. Books were written ...

Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little f...

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The third Baby Ganesh Agency novel finds Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick Ganesha investigating the disappearance of a fast-living Bollyw...

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Reducere. Starting in Wazir Bagh, a small mohalla in Kashmir, Vidhu Vinod Chopra's life has been well and truly unscripted. Over the last thirty years, he ha...

In this Indian-set mystery, Inspector Chopra inherits an elephant and an unsolved murder on his last day at work. A joyful, charming read for fans ...

The comprehensive first monograph on Indian architect Anupama KundooThe fourth volume in the book series The Architect's Studio presents the Indian...

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A path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.Illustrations: No

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An important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema a...

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This remarkable book grew out of a conference headed by Ren Gu non, the sinologist Ren Grousset, and the neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain on questions ...

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.

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Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of...

DescriptionThe Story of Trees takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit c...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

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Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

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``Compassionate and clear...a courageous undertaking.`` --Greg Mortenson, New York Times bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Sc...

Eight different bears of the world set out to display their likes, their homes and their status as the best at climbing, best at catching fish and ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic c...

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Reducere. Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed ...

Before Hollywood's golden age, German expressionist film was arguably the most important cinematic movement in the medium's history. These 'symphon...