Beyond Bollywood: the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film/ Jigna Desai.

By: Desai, JignaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: x, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415966841 (hard. : alk. paper); 041596685X (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Motion pictures -- India | South Asians -- Foreign countriesDDC classification: 791.430954
Contents:
Brown Skin and Silver Screens Chapter One South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies Chapter Two Between Hollywood and Bollywood Chapter Three Home on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala Chapter Four Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala Chapter Five Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectivities in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach Chapter Six Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire Chapter Seven Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English Chapter Eight Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires Endnotes Bibliography Filmography
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.

Filmography: p. 265-272

Brown Skin and Silver Screens
Chapter One
South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies
Chapter Two
Between Hollywood and Bollywood
Chapter Three
Home on the Range:
Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala
Chapter Four
Reel a State:
Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala
Chapter Five
Homesickness and Motion Sickness:
Embodied Migratory Subjectivities in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach
Chapter Six
Homo on the Range:
Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire
Chapter Seven
Sex in the Global City:
The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English
Chapter Eight
Conclusion:
Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires
Endnotes
Bibliography
Filmography

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