From the exotic images of Merchant Ivory to the Bollywood influenced contemporary diaspora films, this mini-season accompanies the publishing of a new book Picturing South Asian Culture in English: Textual and Visual Representations edited by Tasleem Shakur and Karen D’Souza (2003) with contributors mainly from Edge Hill College, Lancashire and published by Open House Press, Liverpool.
Previously in this season
Cinema
Black Narcissus
A sensual story about an order of nuns living in the highest Himalayas, driven mad by the scents and sights of their surroundings.