Film and literature are two mediums one literary, the other performative which use language and image in order to capture the lived reality of cultural constructs. But the processes of producing meaning and interpreting meaning are complex and multilayered, getting caught up in histories, locations, and experiences. Neither film nor literature is a self-contained autonomous medium or artifact, and even as they use and produce culture, they become its subverters. ~Films, Literature and Culture is a collection of 19 essays ...
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Film and literature are two mediums one literary, the other performative which use language and image in order to capture the lived reality of cultural constructs. But the processes of producing meaning and interpreting meaning are complex and multilayered, getting caught up in histories, locations, and experiences. Neither film nor literature is a self-contained autonomous medium or artifact, and even as they use and produce culture, they become its subverters. ~Films, Literature and Culture is a collection of 19 essays that focus on film director Deepa Mehtas Elements Trilogy, exploring the interconnections in the three categories and the manner in which they feed into each other. The range of the interpretative strategies is very diverse: social and political history --- gender positions and feminist theory --- cinematic frameworks and the theory of the gaze --- landscape, space and exteriority --- diasporic location and relationship to the culture of origin --- religion and pa
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