style
the art and technique of assembling and arranging separate shots in a sequence
What is editing?
the modern social phenomenon of moving across national borders
What is transnationality?
an event that devastated much of Southeast Asia's regional economies
What is the 1997 Asian financial crisis?
a 1988 play by David Henry Hwang that embeds the story of Madama Butterfly within its narrative
What is M. Butterfly?
a French term meaning “putting into the scene” and includes everything placed within the screen space
What is mise-en-scène?
a concept that describes how relations of power shape the movement and flow of people
What is power-geometry?
a person of Indian citizenship or origin who lives or works abroad; generally presumed to be middle- or -upper-class
What is a non-resident Indian?
an Indian-American filmmaker known for the 1991 film, Mississippi Masala
Who is Mira Nair?
the practice by which texts gain meaning through referencing or evoking other texts
What is intertextuality?
a British colonial policy that constructed Indians as “in-between” race between the European settlers and native Africans
the Ugandan president who ordered the expulsion of Asians from the country in 1972
Who is Idi Amin?
two brothers in the film Babel who inadvertently shoot and wound an American tourist
Who are Yussef and Ahmed?
a formal technique in which a story is embedded within a story; visual or narrative motifs are often repeated or mirrored across layers
What is mise-en-abyme?
the notion that cultures are not necessarily rooted in a particular territory but rather are themselves mobile
What is deterritorialization?
a group of Black British women who organized against domestic violence and religious fundamentalism starting in the late 1970s
Who are the Southall Black Sisters?
a character in the film La haine whose gymnasium is burned in a riot
Who is Hubert?