About the Author

Amardeep Singh, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of English at Lehigh University and author of Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction. His work has appeared in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Review, Literary Compass, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Reviews

Amardeep Singh is a rooted cosmopolitanism, and his sensibility is the right one for a restless, transnational filmmaker like Mira Nair whose work not just crosses but questions borders. Many of us diasporics, citizens of a scattered world, have taken delight in seeing our lives, ourselves, depicted in Nair's films. With this lucid, authoritative study of the filmmaker's impressive oeuvre, we are given a lens to look not only at ourselves but at Nair--and her work--up close.--Amitava Kumar, author of many books, including Immigrant, Montana: A Novel

Mira Nair is one of the most important filmmakers of the past five decades. Amardeep Singh's lucid and elegant prose captures the range of topics and film styles Nair brings to the screen. From the cinéma vérité of her documentary films to her sweeping stories of the diaspora, Singh helps the reader understand the innovations Nair develops. Singh offers a coherent and compelling account of Nair's prolific and still-developing career. This book illustrates Nair's concerns about women and the disenfranchised and how her cinematic arc resonates with contemporary social concerns. Singh's book is a must-read for those interested in global cinema.--Sujata Moorti, author of Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres and coeditor of Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance and Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations