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  • 1984

    The Anti-Sikh Riots and After

    de Sanjay Suri ...
    A chilling eyewitness account of the anti-Sikh violenceSanjay Suri was a young crime reporter with The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards on 31 October 1984. He was among the few journalists to experience the full horror of the anti-Sikh violence that followed and carried on unchecked for the next couple of days, while the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Gandhian Affair

    India's Curious Portrayal of Love in Cinema

    de Sanjay Suri ...
    Hindi cinema, ever since Independence, has revolved almost entirely around issues of sex and money. This may seem odd given the conservative taste of the times. But that we do not 'see' sex does not hide just how much sex there is in the cinema. As for money, a nagging theme is the impact of money - or the lack of it - on sex. Sanjay Suri argues that Hindi cinema was an unlikely offspring of the ... Leer más

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  • With Liberty and Justice for Some

    How the Law is Used To Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

    A scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else."The most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years." —Bill MoyersThe founding principle of the United States was that the rule of law would be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules ... Leer más

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  • The Burglary

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    de Betty Medsger ...
    **INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER • The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.“Impeccably ... Leer más

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  • Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world ... Leer más

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  • Gangs of Wasseypur

    'With unforgettable performances... Gangs has a certain rawness that we haven't seen in Hindi cinema in the recent past. This... should be an interesting read for anyone who enjoyed the films, as the authors take you through what went on in the director's mind and life during the making of this epic' Vishal Bhardwaj, film-maker. Running close to five hours and thirty minutes, and boasting of no ... Leer más

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  • In the Line of Fire

    A Memoir

    According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, ... Leer más

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  • Bollywood

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    Series series Short Cuts
    While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial times to the present, tracing its impact on both the Indian and global imagination. Chapters explore ... Leer más

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  • Abolition Democracy

    Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

    Series series Open Media Series
    Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of ... Leer más

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  • Reflection On Cinema

    de Satyajit Ray ...
    Satyajit Ray is acknowledged to be one of the world's finest film-makers. This book brings together some of his most cerebral writings on film.With the economy and precision that marked his films, Ray writes on the art and craft of cinema, pens an ode to silent cinema, discusses the problems in adapting literary works to film, pays tribute to contemporaries like Godard and Uttam Kumar, and even ... Leer más

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  • Talking to Terrorists

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