Abstract
This chapter locates Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, the director of the elements film trilogy, in relation to the various cinematic traditions that have influenced her personally, culturally, as well as creatively. Mehta may be considered representative of a growing breed of privileged South Asian intellectuals and artists in the diaspora whose lives and work are receiving increasing coverage in the home countries, in the diaspora, and in the ‘liberal’ west.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging |
Editors | Diana Glenn, Eric Bouvet, Sonia Floriani |
Place of Publication | Kent Town, S.A. |
Publisher | Wakefield Press |
Pages | 172-191 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781743050064 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- cinema
- Mehta, Deepa, 1949-