Mercy in Her Eyes

(Applause Books). This The First Book To Examine The Films Of The Acclaimed And Popular Indian-Born And Harvard Educated Filmmaker Mira Nair. A Unique Voice In Cinema Today She Is One Of The Few Female Directors Who Made It To The Top Of A Male-Dominated Profession. Her Films Feature An Incomparably Sensuous Visual Style Yet At The Same Time Often Record The Injustice Of The Disenfranchised And The Cross-Pollination Of East And West. Her Twin Themes Of Realism And Romance Make For Dazzling Cinema. John Kenneth Muir Analyzes All Of Nair''S Work Including: Salaam Bombay! (1988) The Groundbreaking Story Of A Young Boy Abandoned By His Family On The Streets Of Bombay; Mississippi Masala (1991) An Interracial Small Town Romance Between An Indian Woman (Sarita Choudhury) And An African American Businessman (Denzel Washington); Monsoon Wedding (2001) Featuring A Bollywood Carnival Atmosphere One Of The Most Successful Foreign Films Ever Released In The United States; Hysterical Blindness (2002) The Hbo Film Featuring Uma Thurman And Juliette Lewis Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places; The Big-Budget Hollywood Adaptation Of The Thackery Novel Vanity Fair (2004) Starring Reese Witherspoon Gabriel Byrne And Eileen Atkins.