The diasporic cinema of Mira Nair

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Zsanett Varga

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The article analyses the ways in which Nair first focuses on the notions of authenticity, tradition and nostalgia that shift from her initial films into Nair’s feature length films. Nostalgia together with the aspect of the displaced home is pivotal for the director’s diasporic cinema. The article focuses on The Namesake (2006) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), as well as on earlier Nair movies such as the Mississippi Masala (1991) and Salaam Bombay! (1989).

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Varga, Zsanett. 2018. “The Diasporic Cinema of Mira Nair”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 14 (2). https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45417.
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Zsanett Varga

Zsanett Varga is graduate student at the Department of American Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged. Her research interests include gender and film studies with special focus on experimental and independent American cinema. Email: zsanett.varga@ieas-szeged.hu