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Mercy in her eyes : the films of Mira Nair
- Title
- Mercy in her eyes : the films of Mira Nair / John Kenneth Muir.
- Author
- Muir, John Kenneth, 1969-
- Publication
- New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corp. [distributor], [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- ix, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This is the first book to examine the films of the acclaimed and popular Indian-born and Harvard-educated filmmaker, Mira Nair. A unique voice in cinema today, she is one of the few female directors who made it to the top of a male-dominated profession. Her films feature an incomparably sensuous visual style yet at the same time often record the injustice of the disenfranchised and the cross-pollination of East and West. Her twin themes of realism and romance make for dazzling cinema. Noted film authority John Kenneth Muir analyzes all of Nair's work." "Among those interviewed for this book are the actors Gena Rowlands (Hysterical Blindness) and Naveen Andrews (Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, 1997); My Own Country, 1998), currently a star of TV's Lost; and Julian Fellowes, the screen writer of Vanity Fair."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Nair, Mira > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.
- Contents
- A local storyteller at the global cinema : an introduction to Mercy in her eyes : the films of Mira Nair -- Ch. 1. Mahurat : the auspicious beginning of Mira Nair's career in film -- Ch. 2. Salaam Bombay! (1998) -- Ch. 3. Mississippi Masala (1991) and The Perez family (1995) -- Ch. 4. Kama Sutra: a tale of love (1997), My own country (1998), and The laughing club of India (1999) -- Ch. 5. Monsoon wedding (2001), Hysterical blindness (2002), 11'09'01 (2002), and Vanity fair (2004) -- Ch. 6. Sneak peek : The namesake (2006) -- Life is such a comedy : a conclusion to Mercy in her eyes -- App. You know you're in a Mira Nair film when you see ...
- ISBN
- 1557836493 (pbk.)
- 9781557836496 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006005524
- 9781557836496
- OCLC
- OCM64098536
- SCSB-5258198
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries