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The films of Mira Nair : diaspora vérité
- Title
- The films of Mira Nair : diaspora vérité / Amardeep Singh.
- Author
- Singh, Amardeep, 1974-
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- vii, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Films of Mira Nair presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema. Nair has broken new ground as both a feminist filmmaker and an Indian filmmaker. Several of her works, especially those related to the South Asian diaspora, have been influential around the globe. Amardeep Singh delves into the complexities of Nair's films from 1981 to 2016, offering critical commentary on all of Mira Nair's major works, including her early documentary projects as well as shorts. The subtitle, "Diaspora Vérité," alludes to Singh's primary theme: Nair's filmmaking project is driven aesthetically by her background in the documentary realist tradition (cinema vérité) and thematically by her interest in the lives of migrants and diasporic populations. Mainly, Nair's filmmaking intends to document imaginatively the experiences of diasporic communities. Nair's focus on the diasporic appears in the long list of her films that have explored the subject, such as Mississippi Masala, So Far from India, Monsoon Wedding, The Perez Family, My Own Country, The Namesake, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. However, a version of the diasporic sensibility also emerges even in films with an apparently different scope, such as Nair's adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Nair began her career as a documentary filmmaker in the early 1980s. While Nair now has largely moved away from the documentary format in favor of making fictional feature films, Singh shows that a documentary realist style remains active in her subsequent fictional cinema."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220), filmography (pages 197-210) and index.
- Contents
- Mira Nair's diaspora vérité -- "Our hearts and eyes are wide open" : Mira Nair's documentaries -- The aesthetics of disillusionment : Salaam Bombay! (1988) -- A tale of two "chunaris" : the critique of Bollywood in Monsoon Wedding (2001) -- Into the diasporic mixing bowl : Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998) -- Feminist period pieces : Vanity Fair (2004) and Kama Sutra : a tale of love (1996) -- "Every day since then has been a gift" : The Namesake (2006) -- "I had a Pakistani once" : The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) and Nair's post-9/11 short films -- "Where do you belong?" : returning to Uganda in Queen of Katwe (2016).
- Call Number
- MWES (Nair, M.) 18-6724
- ISBN
- 9781496819116
- 149681911X
- 9781496821164
- 1496821165
- LCCN
- 2018006723
- 40028510981
- OCLC
- 1027726061
- Author
- Singh, Amardeep, 1974- author.
- Title
- The films of Mira Nair : diaspora vérité / Amardeep Singh.
- Publisher
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220), filmography (pages 197-210) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Singh, Amardeep, 1974- Films of Mira Nair. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] 9781496819123 (DLC) 2018010238
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028510981
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Nair, M.) 18-6724