Locations : the situated influences of Deepa Mehta's film trilogy

Sukhmani Khorana

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging
EditorsDiana Glenn, Eric Bouvet, Sonia Floriani
Place of PublicationKent Town, S.A.
PublisherWakefield Press
Pages172-191
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9781743050064
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • cinema
  • Mehta, Deepa, 1949-

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