03091nam 2200661 a 450 991081900510332120200520144314.01-135-88719-50-415-96684-11-135-88720-91-280-04615-50-203-64395-X10.4324/9780203643952 (CKB)1000000000248114(EBL)200847(OCoLC)56588165(SSID)ssj0000289903(PQKBManifestationID)11222069(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289903(PQKBWorkID)10408759(PQKB)10525748(MiAaPQ)EBC200847(Au-PeEL)EBL200847(CaPaEBR)ebr10093681(CaONFJC)MIL4615(OCoLC)56588165 (EXLCZ)99100000000024811420030606d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond Bollywood the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film /Jigna Desai1st ed.New York Routledge20041 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-203-69370-1 0-415-96685-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.Filmography: p. 265-272.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 FireSex 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; IndexBeyond 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.Motion picturesIndiaSouth AsiansForeign countriesMotion picturesSouth Asians791.43/0954Desai Jigna607330MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819005103321Beyond Bollywood1127160UNINA