Acting Applause Audio, Video & DVD Guides Applause Legends Series Applause Shakespeare Collection Art Books Auditions, Scenes and Monologues Biographies Dance Drama Entertainment/Reference Fiction Film/Reference Gay and Lesbian Interest Classical History & Criticism Humor Books Memoir Monologues Music/Literature Musicals New York On Singing Onstage Video Library Performing Arts Plays: African-American Drama Plays: Classic Plays: Classical Anthologies Plays: Contemporary Plays: Women's Theatre Playwriting Scenes & Monologues Screenplays & Film Shakespeare/Theatre Criticism Singing, Voice & Speech Television Theatre/Reference Voice/Speech

The item was added to the shopping cart.   MERCY IN HER EYES The Films of Mira Nair Series: Applause Books Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books Medium: Softcover Author: John Kenneth Muir “I want my films to explode with life.” –Mira Nair. This the first book to examine the films of the acclaimed and popular Indian-born and Harvard educated filmmaker, Mira Nair. A unique voice in cinema today, she is one of the few female directors who made it to the top of a male-dominated profession. Her films feature an incomparably sensuous visual style yet at the same time often record the injustice of the disenfranchised and the cross-pollination of East and West. Her twin themes of realism and romance make for dazzling cinema. John Kenneth Muir analyzes all of Nair's work, including: • Salaam Bombay! (1988), the groundbreaking story of a young boy abandoned by his family on the streets of Bombay. • Mississippi Masala (1991), an interracial small town romance between an Indian woman (Sarita Choudhury) and an African American businessman (Denzel Washington). • Monsoon Wedding (2001), featuring a Bollywood carnival atmosphere, one of the most successful foreign films ever released in the United States. • Hysterical Blindness (2002), the HBO film featuring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis, looking for love in all the wrong places. • The big-budget Hollywood adaptation of the Thackery novel Vanity Fair (2004), starring Reese Witherspoon, Gabriel Byrne, and Eileen Atkins. $17.95 (US) Inventory # HL 00314700 ISBN: 1557836493 UPC: 073999671889 Width: 6 Length: 9 Pages: 304