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, MonsoonWedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.
Preface: Brown Skin and Silver Screens 1: South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies 2: Between Hollywood and Bollywood 3: Home on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala 4: Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala 5: Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectives in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach 6: Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire 7: Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English 8: Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires Endnotes Bibliography Filmography
