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The Films of Mira Nair - Diaspora Verite (Hardcover)
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The Films of Mira Nair - Diaspora Verite (Hardcover)
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The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Verite presents the first,
full-length scholarly study of her cinema. Mira Nair has broken new
ground as both a feminist filmmaker and an Indian filmmaker.
Several of her works, especially those related to the South Asian
diaspora, have been influential around the globe. Amardeep Singh
delves into the complexities of Nair's films from 1981 to 2016,
offering critical commentary on all of Nair's major works,
including her early documentary projects as well as shorts. The
subtitle, ""diaspora verite,"" alludes to Singh's primary theme:
Nair's filmmaking project is driven aesthetically by her background
in the documentary realist tradition (cinema verite) and
thematically by her interest in the lives of migrants and diasporic
populations. Mainly, Nair's filmmaking intends to document
imaginatively the experiences of diasporic communities. Nair's
focus on the diasporic appears in the long list of her films that
have explored the subject, such as Mississippi Masala, So Far from
India, Monsoon Wedding, The Perez Family, My Own Country, The
Namesake, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. However, a version of
the diasporic sensibility also emerges even in films with an
apparently different scope, such as Nair's adaptation of
Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Nair began her career as a documentary
filmmaker in the early 1980s. While Nair now has largely moved away
from the documentary format in favor of making fictional feature
films, Singh shows that a documentary realist style remains active
in her subsequent fictional cinema.
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