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Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair

Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair

Muir, John Kenneth

Paperback

Series: Applause Books

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1557836493
ISBN13: 9781557836496
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.58 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

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.

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