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Article: 'ANOTHER KIND OF BRITISH': An Exploration of British Asian Films.
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- Cineaste
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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What is British-Asian film? Just as lumping together filmmakers of any kind within a single cultural grouping is fraught with difficulty, so the term 'British Asian' may fail to recognize individual artistic voices, such as those of British-Asian filmmakers who do not make Asian-themed films. Nevertheless, the majority of British-Asian films do, for the most part, have Asian themes and share a number of features, including relatively low budgets. Academics and critics often pack films by British-Asian filmmakers into a variety of 'cultural boxes.' They are defined, for example, as part of a distinctive 'Black' British Cinema, with which they share many cultural references ...