Format:
1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
ISBN:
9781496819130
Content:
The first full-length study of the Indian American filmmaker's extraordinary cinema
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Mira Nair's Diaspora Vérité -- 2. "Our Hearts and Eyes Are Wide Open": Mira Nair's Documentaries -- 3. The Aesthetics of Disillusionment: Salaam Bombay! (1988) -- 4. A Tale of Two "Chunaris": The Critique of Bollywood in Monsoon Wedding (2001) -- 5. Into the Diasporic Mixing Bowl: Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998) -- 6. Feminist Period Pieces: Vanity Fair (2004) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) -- 7. "Every Day Since Then Has Been a Gift": The Namesake (2006) -- 8. "I Had a Pakistani Once": The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) and Nair's Post-9/11 Short Films -- 9. "Where Do You Belong?": Returning to Uganda in Queen of Katwe (2016) -- Mira Nair's Filmography -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781496821164
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Singh, Amardeep The Films of Mira Nair : Diaspora Verite Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,c2018
Language:
English
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