Beyond Bollywood

The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

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by Jigna Desai

Routledge

Due/Published November 2003, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 041596685X

Beyond Bollywood offers a 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.