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Diaspora and cultural negotiations : the films of Gurinder Chadha
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- Summary
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"This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures ...
"This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences"--
Details
- Creator
- edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) : color illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781666912852, 1666912867, 9781666912869
- OCLC
- on1309035715, on1309377390
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Gurinder Chadha as a scriptwriter : the auteur in dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The mistress of spices / Cristina M. Gámez Fernández -- Gurinder Chadha : BrAsian inroads into planetarity / Alejandra Moreno Álvarez and Jorge Diego Sanchez -- Diasporic crosscurrents : Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair's early documentaries / Amardeep Singh -- 'You may as well please yourself' : resistance and narrative hegemony in the films of Gurinder Chadha / Setara Pracha -- The politics of the possible in Gurinder Chadha's "Quais de Seine" / Lara V. Kattekola -- Generation matters : diasporic reality and myth-making in Gurinder Chadha's Acting our age and What's cooking? / Izabella Kimak -- Salad or soup? : Feasts of feminism and multiculturalism in Gurinder Chadha's What's cooking? / Reshmi Hebbar -- Negotiating belonging : multicultural education in the films of Gurinder Chadha / Susan Flynn -- Darkness on the edge of town : growing up in the suburbs in Angus, thongs & perfect snogging, It's a wonderful afterlife and Blinded by the light / Lauren Bettridge -- A negotiation of 'home' in Gurinder Chadha's film Bend it like Beckham / J. Sunita Peacock
Subjects
- Chadha, Gurinder -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
- East Indian diaspora in motion pictures.
- Acculturation in motion pictures.
- Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
- Women motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Women, East Indian -- Great Britain -- Biography.