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The Films of Mira Nair
Applause Books
June 2006
On Sale: June 19, 2006
Featuring: Mira Nair
320 pages
ISBN: 1557836493
EAN: 9781557836496
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Non-Fiction Biography
"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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