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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film
Author: Desai, Jigna
Subjects: Anglo-Asian Cinema ; Asian Diaspora ; Asians ; Cinema ; Cinema, Radio, Television, Interactive Media ; Cultural Politics ; Cultural studies ; Culture ; Diaspora ; Feminist theory ; Gender & Cinema ; India ; Media & Film Studies ; Motion pictures ; South Asia ; South Asians ; South Asians - Foreign countries ; World Cinema
Description: 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.
Publisher: London: Taylor and Francis
Creation Date: 2004
Format: 296
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780415966849
ISBN: 0415966841
ISBN: 041596685X
ISBN: 9780415966856
ISBN: 1135887195
ISBN: 9781135887193
EISBN: 9780203643952
EISBN: 9780415966849
EISBN: 0415966841
EISBN: 9781135887193
EISBN: 1135887195
EISBN: 020364395X
EISBN: 9781135887209
EISBN: 1135887209
DOI: 10.4324/9780203643952
OCLC: 56588165
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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