Böcker av Pradipta Mukherjee

Are pirates a thing of the past or are they baking cakes in your town?Do they prefer to bury treasure or prepare a tray of muffins?>In The Pirate Bakers only the fishermen believe it could be pirates stealing from their village. It is up to a young boy to uncover the culprits but it isn't going to be easy. A tale of buccaneers and brownies from the author of Patch the Solitary Bee. Inspired by the Isles of Scilly (Cornwall) and suitable for confident readers.

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close reading of cinema that keeps cultural contexts and their socio-historical roots firmly in sight. This collection does not consider the "e;frame"e;, that oft-referenced basic unit of vision in films, as a limiting structure. Rather, it brings into purview what is left out. Divided into three sections, the essays look firstly at Indian cinema, both Bollywood and regional films, tracing the journey of Indian cinema from the periphery to the center.The second section focuses on Adaptation Studies and takes an unorthodox look at classic adaptations of literature. The final section is a reappraisal of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. The essays propose that, even though the film as an artwork does not change fundamentally over time, it still strikes a contemporary critical gaze differently.