Applause Books Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair, (Paperback)

<p>"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. </p><p>John Kenneth Muir analyzes all of Nair's work, including: </p><p>- <i>Salaam Bombay!</i> (1988), the groundbreaking story of a young boy abandoned by his family on the streets of Bombay. </p><p>- <i>Mississippi Masala</i> (1991), an interracial small town romance between an Indian woman (Sarita Choudhury) and an African American businessman (Denzel Washington). </p><p>- <i>Monsoon Wedding</i> (2001), featuring a Bollywood carnival atmosphere, one of the most successful foreign films ever released in the United States. </p><p>- <i>Hysterical Blindness</i> (2002), the HBO film featuring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis, looking for love in all the wrong places. </p><p>- The big-budget Hollywood adaptation of the Thackery novel <i>Vanity Fair</i> (2004), starring Reese Witherspoon, Gabriel Byrne, and Eileen Atkins.</p>

• Applause Books Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair, (Paperback)
• Author: John Kenneth Muir
• ISBN: 9781557836496
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2006-06-01
• Page Count: 322