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UNINA9910819005103321 |
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Autore |
Desai Jigna |
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Titolo |
Beyond Bollywood : the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film / / Jigna Desai |
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New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-88719-5 |
0-415-96684-1 |
1-135-88720-9 |
1-280-04615-5 |
0-203-64395-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - India |
South Asians - Foreign countries |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index. |
Filmography: p. 265-272. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Brown Skins and Silver Screens; South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies; Between Hollywood and Bollywood; When Indians Play Cowboys: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala; Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala; Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectivities in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach; Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire |
Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in EnglishConclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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