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Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading) Playing cowboy and Indian: out musicians Filipe Rose and Randy Jones look back on 25 years of the Village People - the Indian - the cowboy - The Music
Twenty-five years ago, gay pop culture gained a sextet of new icons: the Village People. "It was a wonderful, heady time in New York City and in America," ......(Continue Reading)Visions of the West: Western heritage museums preserve stirring chapters in our nation's wild and wooly past
The West I grew up with was a mixture of fact and fiction. True tales of westward expansion were intertwined with what I saw in the movie theaters and ......(Continue Reading)More Hackney than Bollywood
The British want ethnic minorities to be romantic, exotic, and above all non-Muslim. It's just another way of saying that we don't belong here. When ......(Continue Reading)Gods walk the earth: idiom and archetype in Indian cinema today
Several new Indian film makers are moving away from the traditional artificial plots of Indian's musical dramas. Tamil director Mani Rathnam uses the conventions ......(Continue Reading)
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