Beyond Bollywood : the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film / Jigna Desai.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.

Filmography: p. 265-272.

Preface Brown Skin and Silver Screens -- Chapter One South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies -- Chapter Two Between Hollywood and Bollywood -- Chapter Three Home on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala -- Chapter Four Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala -- Chapter Five Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectivities in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach -- Chapter Six Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire -- Chapter Seven Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English -- Chapter Eight Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Filmography

"Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/2003012737-d.html.