Indian Film

by Erik Barnouw and S Krishnaswamy

For almost 25 years, this was the only serious academic book in English devoted to Indian cinema. This book has since been overtaken by thousands of others, but for a long time it was the book. The early sections on the British period, including the struggle that film-makers faced, were very sound. The revised edition brought it up to date with some theory and the direction Indian cinema was taking.