Mercy in Her Eyes

The Films of Mira Nair (livre en anglais)

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de John Kenneth Muir

Type

Critiques de films

Sujet

Réalisatrice > Mira Nair

Mots Clés

Mira Nair, réalisateur, Inde

Année d'édition

2006

Editeur

Applause Books

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 320 pages
15,5 x 22 cm

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ISBN-13

1-55783-649-3
978-1-55783-649-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
“I want my films to explode with life.” –Mira Nair. This the first book to examine the films of the acclaimed and popular Indian-born and Harvard educated filmmaker, Mira Nair. A unique voice in cinema today, she is one of the few female directors who made it to the top of a male-dominated profession. Her films feature an incomparably sensuous visual style yet at the same time often record the injustice of the disenfranchised and the cross-pollination of East and West. Her twin themes of realism and romance make for dazzling cinema.

John Kenneth Muir analyzes all of Nair's work, including:

• Salaam Bombay! (1988), the groundbreaking story of a young boy abandoned by his family on the streets of Bombay.

• Mississippi Masala (1991), an interracial small town romance between an Indian woman (Sarita Choudhury) and an African American businessman (Denzel Washington).

• Monsoon Wedding (2001), featuring a Bollywood carnival atmosphere, one of the most successful foreign films ever released in the United States.

• Hysterical Blindness (2002), the HBO film featuring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis, looking for love in all the wrong places.

• The big-budget Hollywood adaptation of the Thackery novel Vanity Fair (2004), starring Reese Witherspoon, Gabriel Byrne, and Eileen Atkins.

À propos de l'auteur :
John Kenneth Muir is the author of 16 books including Singing A New Tune: The Rebirth of the Modern Film Musical from Evita to De-Lovely and Beyond (1-55783-610-8'), 'Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (1-55783-609-4'), 'The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (1-55783-607-8'), 'and An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (1-55783-586-1). He lives in Monroe, North Carolina.

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