Jigna Desai

Beyond Bollywood

The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415966849
• ISBN-10: 0415966841
• Artikelnr.: 21780892

Autorenporträt

Jigna Desai is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota. She lives in Minneapolis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Brown Skin and Silver Screens 1: South Asian Diasporas and
Transnational Cultural Studies 2: Between Hollywood and Bollywood 3: Home
on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi
Masala 4: Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in
Srinivas Krishna's Masala 5: Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied
Migratory Subjectives in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach 6: Homo on
the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire
7: Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban,
Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English 8: Conclusion:
Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires Endnotes
Bibliography Filmography