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
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review by BBC Radio 5 Live

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

681 Listeners

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von by Theo Von

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

27,579 Listeners

The A24 Podcast by A24

The A24 Podcast

1,056 Listeners

The Big Picture by The Ringer

The Big Picture

5,475 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,335 Listeners