Bøger af Jigna Desai

Offers a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India, with an emphasis on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This book attends to issues of capitalism, nationalism, orientalism, and modernity through understandings of race, class, gender and sexuality, religion, and politics.

A study of the emergence, development and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema, this text approaches the topic from a feminist and queer perspective to explore the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic".