Examines the making of music videos, originally performed by paid professionals, moving through an amateur stage, to a summer camp in 2011, called OMG! Cameras Everywhere.

Sound is a new area of interest in the Arts and Humanities. The study of sound in cinema has only recently been established in Film and Media Studies. Furthermore, so far, attention has focused on Hollywood and European cinema in this regard. Reading sound from other world cinemas, particularly those from the global South, remains underexplored. As India is currently the world’s largest producer of films with a formidable global presence, this book bridges the gap with a collection of interviews, introducing leading film industry sound practitioners from the subcontinent. The book examines historical developments from the advent of the talkies to present-day digital cinema productions, providing an embodied understanding of the unique Indian film sound world with new perspectives on cinematic narration in the practitioner’s own words.

It is a story of a young boy who wants to save his endangered friend from solitude which indeed makes him fall for her. He tries to bring her back from all that pain she endured as he is the only person that she trusts now. As he brings her back he proposes her so that no other calamity attacks her in the future. What are the situations that made his friend to be in solitude? What are the reasons behind his proposal? Did she accept his proposal or not? All these queries will be answered in this book. It is more of a friendship story rather than a love story.

As we glance through Ram Mohan’s life, we travel through the memories of his childhood and adolescence spent in a cosmopolitan city, where he had found joy in every moment of his life. The maturity and the monotonousness of life set in some sort of restlessness in him, so he explores the path of various religious philosophies in an attempt to elevate him from the present situation but fails. Finally, he meets a wise man who succeeds in making him understand the realities of self-existence hidden within these religious philosophies, which lead him to once again enjoy his life with joy.

To chronicle why young people especially students want to come to United States, what they go through to come here, what their dreams are before they land here, what they experience in the United States and do they really succeed and fulfill their dreams or do they end up somewhere else?

Leading jazz composers and performers reveal their personal feelings toward the history and future of the art form