Chapter 1: The political popular
Bottomore, Stephen, ‘“Have You Seen the Gaekwar Bob?”: Filming the 1911 Delhi Durbar’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 17:3, 1997.
Ganachari, Aravind, Nationalism and Social Reform in a Colonial Situation, Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2005.
Gandhi, M. K., The India of My Dreams (ed. Krishna Kripalani), Ahmedabad: Navjivan Trust, 1947.
Gordon, A. D. D., Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay 1918–1933, Canberra: Australian National University Monographs on South Asia 3/South Asia Books, 1977.
Hughes, Stephen Putnam, ‘The Lost Decade of Film History in India’, Journal of the Moving Image, 9, Kolkata: Jadavpur University, Dec. 2010.
Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (Chairman: P. Rangachariar), vols. 1–5, 1927–8.
Jain, Kajri, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
Majumdar, Neepa, Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s–1950s, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Metcalf, Thomas, Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Orsini, Francesca, Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2009.
Phalke, Dadasaheb, ‘Bharatiya Chitrapat’, Navyug, Bombay, Nov./Dec. 1917, Feb./Sept. 1918 (Marathi); trans. in Firoze Rangoonwalla (ed.), Phalke Centenary Souvenir, Bombay: Phalke Centenary Celebrations Committee, 1978.
Pinney, Christopher, ‘The Line and the Curve: Spatiality and Ambivalence in the 1903 Delhi Coronation Durbar’, in Julie F. Codell (ed.), Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars 1877–1903–1911 (The Alkazi Collection of Photography), Mapin, 2012.
Prasad, M. Madhava, Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Ray, Satyajit, Our Films, Their Films, Delhi: Orient Longman, [1976] 1993.
UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Emerging Markets and the Digitalization of the Film Industry: An Analysis of the 2012 UIS International Survey of Feature Film Statistics, UIS Information Paper 14, August 2013.
Welch, Stuart Cary, Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760–1880. American Federation of Arts, 1978.
Chapter 2: Late colonial India
Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad, I Am Not an Island: An Experiment in Autobiography. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1977.
Brosius, Christiane, ‘The Scattered Homelands of the Migrant: Bollyworld through the Diasporic Lens’, in Raminder Kaur and Ajay J. Sinha (eds.), Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens, Delhi: Sage, 2005.
Chapman, James, The British At War: Cinema, State, and Propaganda, 1939–1945, London/New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers/St Martin’s Press, 1998.
Chatterji, Basudev, Trade, Tariffs, and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India, 1919–1939, Delhi/New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Commission on Education and Cultural Films, The Film in National Life, London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1932.
Desai, A. R., Social Background of Indian Nationalism, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1948/2010.
Gazdar, Mushtāq, Pakistan Cinema, 1947–1997, Karachi/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Higson, Andrew, Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Hiley, Nicholas, ‘Hilton DeWitt Girdwood and the Origins of British Official Filming’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 13:2, 1993.
Jha, Bagishwar, B. N. Sircar, Calcutta: Seagull, 1990.
Kapur, Geeta, When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, Delhi: Tulika Books, 2000.
Kumar, Ravinder, The Making of a Nation: Essays in Indian History and Politics, New Delhi: Manohar, 1989.
Majumdar, Neepa, ‘Immortal Tale or Nightmare? Dr Kotnis Between Art and Exploitation’, South Asian Popular Culture, 6:2, 2008.
Report of the Colonial Films Committee (London: HMSO, 1930).
Shantaram, V., Shantarama: The Autobiography of V. Shantaram (as told to Madhura Jasraj), Bombay: Rajkamal Kalamandir, 1986 (Marathi/Hindi).
The Film In National Life: Being the Report of an Enquiry Conducted by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films into the Service which the Cinematograph may render to Education and Social Progress, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932.
Tomlinson, B. R., The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914–1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India, London: Macmillan Press, 1979.
Chapter 3: Partition and the ‘all-India’ film
Ahmed, Ishtiaq, ‘The Lahore Film Industry’, in Anjali Gera Roy, and Chuha Beng Huat (eds.), Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Aziz, M. Ashraf, ‘Play it again, Ram’ (Special issue on the Golden Age of Hindi Film Music), Cinema Vision India, 2:2, 1982.
Biswas, Moinak, Apu and After: Re-visiting Ray’s Cinema, London/New York: Seagull Books, 2006.
Das Gupta, Chidananda, Talking About Films, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1981.
Ray, R. M. (ed.) Film Seminar Report, 1955, New Delhi: Sangeet Natak Akademi, 1956.
Report of the Film Enquiry Committee 1951 (Chairman: S. K. Patil), Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1951.
Reuben, Bunny, Raj Kapur, the Fabulous Showman: An Intimate Biography, Bombay: National Film Development Corp., 1988.
Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991.
Seton, Marie, Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971.
Shantaram, Kiran, and Sanjit Narwekar, V. Shantaram, the Legacy of the Royal Lotus, New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2003.
Chapter 4: The new cinemas
Basu, Sakti and Shuvendu Dasgupta (eds.), Film Polemics, Kolkata: Cine Club of Calcutta, 1992.
Committee on Public Undertakings (1975–6): 79th Report: Film Finance Corporation, Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1976.
Estimates Committee 1973–4: Fifth Lok Sabha, Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1974.
Ganti, Tejaswini, ‘Casting Culture: the Social Life of Hindi Film Production in Contemporary India’, unpublished PhD dissertation, New York University, 2000.
Oomen, T. K., ‘Development Policy and the Nature of Society: Understanding the Kerala Model’, Economic & Political Weekly, 44:13, 28 March, 2009.
Radhakrishnan, Ratheesh, ‘The Gulf in the Imagination: Migration, Malayalam Cinema and Regional Identity’, New Delhi: Contributions to Indian Sociology, 43:2, 2009.
Seton, Marie, Film as an Art and Film Appreciation, New Delhi National Institute of Audio-Visual Education, National Council of Educational Research & Training, 1964.
Seton, Marie, ‘Problems of Film Making in India’, India International Centre Quarterly, 1 April 1975.
Srinivas, S. V., Politics as Performance: A Social History of the Telugu Cinema, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013.
Chapter 5: Bollywood
Confederation of Indian Industry and A. T. Kearney, The New Economics of Indian Film Industry: Creativity and Transformation, New Delhi/Mumbai: Confederation of Indian Industry, 2007.
Das Gupta, Chidananda, ‘Indian Cinema Today’, Film Quarterly, 22:4, Summer 1969, 27–3.
Digital Dawn: The Metamorphosis Begins, FICCI/KPMG Media and Entertainment Industry Report 2012.
Gurata, Ahmet, ‘The Road to Vagrancy: Translation and Reception of Indian Cinema in Turkey’, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 1, January 2010, 67–90.
Housee, Shirin and Muhktar Dar, ‘Re-Mixing Identities: “Off” the Turn Table’, in Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, and Ashwani Sharma (eds.), Disorienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music, London: Zed Books, 1996.
Larkin, Brian, ‘Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities’, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 67:3, 1997, 406–40.
Marshall, Wayne and Jayson Beaster-Jones, ‘It Takes a Little Lawsuit: The Flowering Garden of Bollywood Exoticism in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility’, South Asian Popular Culture, 10:3, 2012, 249–60.
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Aspects of the Black Money in India, New Delhi: 1989.
‘Netvamsham!’, The Times of India, 18 July 1999.
Pendakur, Manjunath, ‘Twisting and Turning: India’s Telecommunications and Media Industries Under the Neo-liberal Regime’, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 9:2, June 2013.
Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Sharma, Sanjay, John Hutnyk, and Ashwani Sharma (eds.), Dis-Orienting Rhythms, The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music, London/New Jersey: Zed Books, 1996.