20 Best Books on Indian Cinema: (in random order)
1. Indian Film by Erik Barnouw & S. Krishnaswamy (OUP, 1980)
2. National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema 1947-1987 by S. Chakravarty (OUP, 1993)
3. The Painted Face: Studies in India
4. Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar by Nusreen Munni Kabir (OUP, 1999) (Also the companion volume, Talking Songs)
5. Indian Popular Cinema, ed. Pradip Krishen , India
6. The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema by Ashish Nandy (OUP, 1998)
7. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajyadhyaksha and Paul Willeman (OUP/British Film Institute, 1999)
8. Report of the Enquiry Committee of S.K. Patil (New Delhi, 1951)
9. Ideology of the Hindi Film by Madhava Prasad (Rupa, 1998)
10. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray by Chidananda Dasgupta (NBT, 1994)
11. The Cinematic Image Nation: Indian Popular Films as Social History, 1947-2000 by Jyotika Virdi (Rutgers University
12. Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition by Bhaskar Sarkar (Duke University Press, 2009)
13. Our Films, Their Films by Satyajit Ray (Orient Longman, 1976)
14. Making Meaning in Indian Cinema by Ravi Vasudevan (OUP, 2000)
15. City Flicks: Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience ed. Preben Kaarsholm (Seagull, 2004)
16. Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City by Ranjani Mazumdar (Permanent Black, 2007)
17. Apu and After: Revisiting Ray’s Cinema ed. Moinak Biswas (Seagull, 2006)
18. The Politics of India’s Conventional Cinema by Fareed Kazmi (Sage, 1999)
19. Bollywood: A History by Mihir Bose (Roli, 2006)
20. The Bioscope Man (a novel) by Indrajit Hazra (Penguin, 2008)
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