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Call No: 462-054.72 NAF
Author: Naficy, Hamid
Source: US
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: v, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; EMIGRANT FILM WORKERS; EGOYAN, ATOM; KHLEIFI, MICHEL; NAIR, MIRA; SOLANAS, FERNANDO E.; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; NADERI, AMIR; MEKAS, JONAS; MARKER, CHRIS; GITAI, AMOS; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0691043914

Call No: 71(73) LEV
Author: Levy, Emanuel, 1947
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: New York University Press
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; OUTSIDERS IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; FILM NOIR; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMEDIES. USA; BLACK CINEMA. US; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE; ARAKI, GREGG; NUNEZ, VICTOR; BROOKS, ALBERT; SMITH, KEVIN; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; FERRARA, ABEL; WATERS, JOHN (US); HARTLEY, HAL; HAYNES, TODD; JARMUSCH, JIM; JOST, JON; LEE, SPIKE; LINKLATER, RICHARD; LYNCH, DAVID; MAMET, DAVID; NAIR, MIRA; SAYLES, JOHN; CASSAVETES, NICK; SODERBERGH, STEVEN; SOLONDZ, TODD; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989); BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (US, Neil Labute, 1997); GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Summary: "Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and index
ISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper)
LON: 20253533

Call No: 802.253 RED
Author: Redding, Judith M; Brownworth, Victoria A
Place: Seattle
Publisher: Seal Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DIRECTORS; CAMPION, JANE; LIGHT, ALLIE; PARMAR, PRATIBHA; Lupino, Ida; PARKERSON, MICHELLE; SAALFIELD, CATHERINE; HAMMER, BARBARA; FRIEDRICH, SU; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; NEGRON-MUNTANER, FRANCES; MOHABEER, MICHELLE; TAIT, MARGARET; WELBON, YVONNE; AYOKA, CHENZIRA; BENNING, SADIE; BORDEN, LIZZIE; SEIDELMAN, SUSAN; NAIR, MIRA; GORRIS, MARLEEN; ANDERS, ALLISON; DASH, JULIE; ROZEMA, PATRICIA; PORTILLO, LOURDES; DAVIS, ZEINABU IRENE; DEITCH, DONNA; BHARADWAJ, RADHA; OXENBERG, JAN; MEHTA, VIJAYA; BALLETBO-COLL, MARTA; ZIMMERMAN, DEBRA; VACHON, CHRISTINE; GRIFFIN, ADA GAY; GRIER, BARBARA
Notes: Filmography: p; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 1878067974
LON: 97029205; 13395017

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: 62(082) GEN
Author: Codell, Julie F.
Source: US
Place: Malden, Massachusetts
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; FILM NOIR; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; WORLD CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IRAN; MELODRAMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; KAIGE, CHEN; NAIR, MIRA; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995); SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998); ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) SEE TODO SOBRE MI MADRE; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."
ISBN: 1405132337
Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements

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: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: NAIR, MIRA

Call No: 802.253 FOS
Author: Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey
Place: Carbondale, Ill.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: x, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AFRICAN COUNTRIES; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ASIAN COUNTRIES; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY. AFRICAN COUNTRIES; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY. ASIAN COUNTRIES; DAVIS, ZEINABU IRENE; DASH, JULIE; PARMAR, PRATIBHA; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; NAIR, MIRA; ONWURAH, NGOZI
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index
ISBN: 080932119X (cloth : alk. paper); 0809321203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Order Received: 1997
LON: 96027635; 12664249