Contribution to Book
The Post of Colonial in the Works of Pratibha Parmar: "Kiss my chuddies"
Women Filmmakers: Refocusing
(2003)
Abstract
Pratibha Parmar's films and criticism have worked to make commonplace an altered view of gender and of British national identity. Her work combats racist, sexist, and homophobic ideas that are deeply culturally embedded. Parmar has a long history of activism and academic criticism on issues surrounding race and nation, such as her contributions to the pivotal book The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (1982). She also explores these ideas in her films The Colour of Britain (1994) and Brimful of Asia (1998).
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Keywords
- Pratibha Parmar,
- The Colour of Britain,
- Brimful of Asia,
- The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain,
- British,
- Britain,
- Nationalism,
- Ethnicity
Disciplines
Publication Date
2003
Editor
Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
ISBN
9780415967822
Publisher Statement
What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Has the gender issue been eclipsed by questions of race and class? Does feminist theory still make a contribution to practice? This volume brings together the thoughts of women filmmakers and critics on what has changed over the past twenty years.
Questions of history and theory, genre, creativity, funding and distribution, national and cultural identity, and class all come to the fore in this unparalled contemporary study of women's film culture.
Equally accessible to non-specialists and researchers, this book will appeal to filmmakers, film studies faculty and students, film buffs, and those with an interest in women's studies and cultural studies.
This wide-ranging volume includes contributions from prominent filmmakers and scholars, such as Helma Sanders Brahms, Deepa Mehta, Pratibha Parmar, Margarethe von Trotta, Ann Wheeler, and E. Ann Kaplan
Review:
The three editors of Women Filmmakers: Refocusing have done a remarkable job of gathering material about the state of women’s feature and documentary filmmaking in the world outside of the United States, providing film historical background, and reminding the reader of the stakes and parameters of the feminist film theory that launched many women as filmmakers ... Women Filmmakers: Refocusing is useful for film researchers, students, and general readers as well as those working in women’s and cultural studies. The balance between academic discourse and practical experience, as well as between theory, history, and analysis, will serve all readers, as will the solid scholarly apparatus in the form of footnotes and filmographies. (Robin Blaetz University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05)
Citation Information
Tracy J. Prince. "The Post of Colonial in the Works of Pratibha Parmar: "Kiss my chuddies"" Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWomen Filmmakers: Refocusing (2003) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tracy-prince/6/