Museum of the Moving Image Pinewood Dialogues

Mira Nair


Listen Later

The immigrant's sense of dislocation resonates in the films of Mira Nair, who often focuses on different permutations of the outsider—Bombay street urchins in Salaam Bombay!, Cuban immigrants in The Perez Family, a sixteenth-century Indian servant girl in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love—and their disconnection from the social order around them. Nair's films often focus on complex female characters, and examine the complications that arise from the intermingling of ethnicities, traditions, and classes. In this talk, Nair discusses the examination of sociopolitical exclusion in her past work and in her adaptation of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Museum of the Moving Image Pinewood DialoguesBy Museum of the Moving Image

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

21 ratings


More shows like Museum of the Moving Image Pinewood Dialogues

View all
Happy Sad Confused by Josh Horowitz

Happy Sad Confused

1,257 Listeners

The Bill Simmons Podcast by The Ringer

The Bill Simmons Podcast

29,985 Listeners

The Big Picture by The Ringer

The Big Picture

5,537 Listeners

The Plot Thickens by TCM

The Plot Thickens

5,305 Listeners