Tanvir Mokammel - Books Published

Books Published

• “Film Aesthetics and Twelve Directors” (Chalachitra o Barojon Director) in Bengali, a book dealing with the film aesthetics of Griffith, Eisenstein, Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Cocteau, Dziga Vertov, Stroheim, John Ford, Renoir, Godard, Rene Clair and Satyajit Ray, Sahitya Prakashoni ,1985.
• “Film” (Chalachitra), a brief history of the world cinema, in Bengali, published by Bangla Academy, 1987.
• "Marxbad O Sahitya" (Marxism and Literature), a collection of essays, mostly literary criticism and on different authors of Bengali literature, also essays on Gramsci or on the problem of alienation.
• “Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest for Tradition in Novel” (in Bengali), a book of literary criticism on the novels and short stories written by Syed Waliullah, perhaps the most prominent writer among the Muslim community of Bengal, published by Muktodhara, 1988.
• “Nitchutalar Manush”, translation of Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths, into Bengali, published by Viswasahitya Kendro, 1997.
• “Charlie Chaplin: Triumph of the Tramp” (Bhabaghurer Digbijoy), in Bengali, on the life and craft of Charlie Chaplin as an actor and film-maker, Sahitya Prakasoni, 1996.
• “Grundtvig and Gonoshikhsa”, a book on the theories of alternative education for the downtrodden and disadvantaged people of the rural areas, 1997.
• “Art of Cinema” (Cinemar Shilparup), in Bengali, a collection of essays on different aspects of the aesthetics of cinema, published by Agami Prokashoni, 1998.

He has also published articles on different socio-political issues, poems, short stories, book reviews, translation works, theatre and film criticism in different newspapers and journals.