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PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity
Subject: BOMBAY (II, Mani Ratnam, 1995)

Call No: 79BOM
Author: Gopalan Lalitha
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 94 p. ; 19 cm
Series: BFI Modern Classics
Subject: INDIA; BOMBAY (II, Mani Ratnam, 1995)
Summary: In January 1993 sectarian rioting left 2000 Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil film Bombay (1995) used these events as a backdrop to a love story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. Bombay was condemned by Muslim critics for misrepresentation and it was embroiled in censorship controversies. These served only to heighten interest and the film ran to packed houses in India and abroad. Lalitha Gopalan shows how Bombay struggles ot find a narrative that can reconcile differences. She looks in detail at the way official censors tried to change the film under the influence of powerful figures in both the Muslim and the Hindu communities. In going on to analyse the aesthetics of Bombay, she shows how themes of social and gender difference are rendedred through performance, choreography, song and cinematography. This is a fascinating account of a landmark in recent Indian cinema. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 0851709567

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BOMBAY BEACH (US, Alma Har'el, 2011)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BOMBAY BOYS (II, Kaizad Gustad, 1998)

PhysDes: Article
Subject: BOMBAY CLIPPER (US, John Rawlings, 1942)

PhysDes: Article
Subject: BOMBAY CLIPPER (US, John Rawlings, 1942)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Stills; Press kit
Subject: BOMBAY TALKIE (II, James Ivory, 1970)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COURTESANS OF BOMBAY, THE (UK, Ismail Merchant, 1983)

Call No: 81 NAI SIN
Author: Singh, Amardeep
Place: Jackson
Publisher: University Press of Mississipp
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: vii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject: NAIR, MIRA; SALAAM BOMBAY! (II/UK/FR, Mira Nair, 1988); MONSOON WEDDING (US/II, Mira Nair, 2001); MISSISSIPPI MASALA (US, Mira Nair, 1991); PEREZ FAMILY, THE (US, Mira Nair, 1995); MY OWN COUNTRY (US, Mira Nair, 1998); VANITY FAIR (UK/US, Mira Nair, 2004); KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE (II, Mira Nair, 1996); NAMESAKE, THE (II/US, Mira Nair, 2006); RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, THE (US/UK/QATAR, Mira Nair, 2012); QUEEN OF KATWE (US, Mira Nair, 2016)
Summary: "The Films of Mira Nair presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema. 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 Mira Nair's major works, including her early documentary projects as well as shorts. The subtitle, "Diaspora Ve´rite´," alludes to Singh's primary theme: Nair's filmmaking project is driven aesthetically by her background in the documentary realist tradition (cinema ve´rite´) 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220), filmography (pages 197-210) and index.
ISBN: 9781496821164
Contents: Mira Nair's diaspora ve´rite´ -- "Our hearts and eyes are wide open" : Mira Nair's documentaries -- The aesthetics of disillusionment : Salaam Bombay! (1988) -- A tale of two "chunaris" : the critique of Bollywood in Monsoon Wedding (2001) -- Into the diasporic mixing bowl : Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998) -- Feminist period pieces : Vanity Fair (2004) and Kama Sutra : a tale of love (1996) -- "Every day since then has been a gift" : The Namesake (2006) -- "I had a Pakistani once" : The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) and Nair's post-9/ 11 short films -- "Where do you belong?": returning to Uganda in Queen of Katwe (2016).

Call No: 81NAI MUI
Author: Muir, John Kenneth
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
PubDate: c2006
PhysDes: ix, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Subject: INDIA; FILM; NAIR, MIRA; SALAAM BOMBAY! (II/UK/FR, Mira Nair, 1988); MISSISSIPPI MASALA (US, Mira Nair, 1991); PEREZ FAMILY, THE (US, Mira Nair, 1995); KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE (II, Mira Nair, 1996); MY OWN COUNTRY (US, Mira Nair, 1998); LAUGHING CLUB OF INDIA, THE (US/II, Mira Nair, 1999); MONSOON WEDDING (US/II, Mira Nair, 2001); HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS (US. Mira Nair, 2002); 11'09"01 [ELEVEN'NINE"01]- SEPTEMBER 11 (FR, Youssef Chahine & Amos Gitai & Alejandro Gonzalen Inarritu & Shohei Imamura & Claude LeLouch & Ken Loach & Samira Makhmalbaf & Mira Nair & Idrissa Quedraogo & Sean Penn & Dennis Tanovic, 2002); VANITY FAIR (UK/US, Mira Nair, 2004); NAMESAKE, THE (II/US, Mira Nair, 2006)
Summary: "This is 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. Noted film authority John Kenneth Muir analyzes all of Nair's work." "Among those interviewed for this book are the actors Gena Rowlands (Hysterical Blindness) and Naveen Andrews (Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, 1997); My Own Country, 1998), currently a star of TV's Lost; and Julian Fellowes, the screen writer of Vanity Fair."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [261]-268
ISBN: 9781557836496
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- A local storyteller at the global cinema : an introduction to Mercy in her eyes : the films of Mira Nair -- Ch. 1. Mahurat : the auspicious beginning of Mira Nair's career in film -- Ch. 2. Salaam Bombay! (1998) -- Ch. 3. Mississippi Masala (1991) and The Perez family (1995) -- Ch. 4. Kama Sutra: a tale of love (1997), My own country (1998), and The laughing club of India (1999) -- Ch. 5. Monsoon wedding (2001), Hysterical blindness (2002), 11'09'01 (2002), and Vanity fair (2004) -- Ch. 6. Sneak peek : The namesake (2006) -- Life is such a comedy : a conclusion to Mercy in her eyes -- App. You know you're in a Mira Nair film when you see ... -- notes -- selected bibliography -- index --

Call No: 802.25 MYF
Author: Lowenstein, Stephen
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: xiv, 360 p. ; [12 plates]
Subject: ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; ANDERS, ALLISON; BUSCEMI, STEVE; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; DICILLO, TOM; FIGGIS, MIKE; FREARS, STEPHEN; HOGAN, P.J.; JORDAN, NEIL; LEE, ANG; LEIGH, MIKE; LEVINSON, BARRY; LOACH, KENNETH; MANGOLD, JAMES; MINGHELLA, ANTHONY; NAIR, MIRA; OLDMAN, GARY; SMITH, KEVIN; STONE, OLIVER; TAVERNIER, BERTRAND; BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984); GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992); JOHNNY SUEDE (US, Tom DiCillo, 1991); CLERKS (US, Kevin Smith, 1994); DINER (US, Barry Levinson, 1982); SALVADOR (US, Oliver Stone, 1986); ANGEL [DANNY BOY] (IE/UK, Neil Jordan, 1982); TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY (UK, Anthony Minghella, 1990); SALAAM BOMBAY! (II/UK/FR, Mira Nair, 1988); STORMY MONDAY (UK, Mike Figgis, 1988); PEPI, LUCI, BOM Y OTRAS CHICAS DEL MONTON (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1980); TREES LOUNGE (US, Steve Buscemi, 1996); NIL BY MOUTH (UK, Gary Oldman, 1997); TUI SHOU (TZ, Ang Lee, 1992); MURIEL’S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994); HEAVY (US, James Mangold, 1995); HORLOGER DE SAINT-PAUL, L' (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1974); BLEAK MOMENTS (UK, Mike Leigh, 1971); POOR COW (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1967); GUMSHOE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1971)
Summary: Interviews with film-makers about making their first film.
ISBN: 0571196691

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity
Subject: SALAAM BOMBAY! (II/UK/FR, Mira Nair, 1988)

Call No: 79SAL NAI
Author: Nair, Mira; Taraporevala, Sooni
Source: II
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xi, 202 p., 32 plates ; 18 cm
Subject: SALAAM BOMBAY! (II/UK/FR, Mira Nair, 1988)
ISBN: 0140127240
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

PhysDes: Article
Subject: COURTESANS OF BOMBAY, THE (UK, Ismail Merchant, 1983)
Summary: Creds.