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Author Desai, Jigna.

Title Beyond Bollywood : the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film / Jigna Desai
Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Preface: Brown Skins and Silver Screens -- Ch. 1. South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies -- Ch. 2. Between Hollywood and Bollywood -- Ch. 3. When Indians Play Cowboys: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala -- Ch. 4. Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala -- Ch. 5. Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectivities in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach -- Ch. 6. Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire -- Ch. 7. Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English -- Ch. 8. Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires
Summary "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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/2003012737-d.html
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index
Filmography: pages 265-272
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures, Indic.
Motion pictures -- India.
South Asians -- Foreign countries.
LC no. 2003012737
ISBN 0415966841 hardcover alkaline paper
041596685X paperback alkaline paper