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Neha Kamdar

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So far Neha Kamdar has created 4 blog entries.

Racism, multiculturalism, and everything cinema teaches us.

June 19th, 2011|

David Cameron’s speech on multiculturalism a few months ago spurred a lot of analysis, attracting both appreciation as well as consternation from the most unexpected quarters. The question is, are there large parts of his country's political history that Mr. Cameron's speech just did not bother with? And if so, can we earn more by looking at the cultural artifacts of that country, such as postcolonial minority filmmaking in Britain?

British South Asian Cinema and the Presence of History

February 28th, 2011|


Thinking of class in postcolonial societies: Sebastian Silva’s The Maid (2009)

December 1st, 2010|

What constitutes postcolonial cinema? To qualify as such, does a film have to explicitly explore themes related directly to colonial and postcolonial relations between two countries and/or cultures? Does it have to be produced in a newly postcolonial society? Or can a film be postcolonial when it addresses certain social issues in a modern country […]

9/11 and the lives of Others: Yasmin (Dir. Kenny Glenaan, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy)

September 14th, 2010|

Yasmin (2004) begins with a scene that forces discomfort upon its audience. We hear the azaan, wafting through the windows of a mosque and rolling onto the undulating English countryside, where a young woman, hidden away by the uneven topography, is getting out of her salwaar-kameez, and into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. […]