Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

The Films of Gurinder Chadha

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1285-2 (ISBN)

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This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences.

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence. Contributors analyze Chadha’s films in the context of cultural milieus including multiculturalism, narration and representation, ethnicity, literary adaptation, and intercultural negotiations, while also exploring Chadha’s own role as an auteur. Scholars of film studies, Indian cinema, diaspora studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

Shilpa Daithota Bhatis assistant professor at the National Forensic Sciences University (An Institution of National Importance; Ministry of Home Affairs) in India.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Shilpa Daithota Bhat

Part 1: Transnational Culture and Contexts

Chapter 1:Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: the Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
Cristina M. Gámez Fernández
Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into Planetarity
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez and Jorge Diego Sanchez
Chapter 3: Diasporic Crosscurrents: Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair's Early Documentaries
Amardeep Singh

Part 2: Power, Perspectives and Cultural Representations

Chapter 4: ‘You may as well please yourself’: Resistance and Narrative Hegemony in the Films of Gurinder Chadha
Setara Pracha
Chapter 5: The Politics of the Possible in Gurinder Chadha’s “Quais de Seine”
Lara V. Kattekola
Chapter 6: Generation Matters: Diasporic Reality and Myth-Making in Gurinder Chadha’s Acting Our Age and What’s Cooking?
Izabella Kimak

Part 3: Socio-Cultural Spaces and Multicultural Negotiations

Chapter 7: Salad or Soup?: Feasts of Feminism and Mult

Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2022
Co-Autor	Lauren Bettridge, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Susan Flynn, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Zusatzinfo	23 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 227 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-1285-9 / 1666912859
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1285-2 / 9781666912852
Zustand	Neuware