Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Shohini Gosh starts her critical analysis of Fire (फायर Phāyar), the 1996 film by Canadian Indian director Deepa Mehta, and its reception, with something akin to an apology: when Fire premiered in India (in 1998), Gosh says, she wrote a generally laudatory review, except for one "damning paragraph" that expressed her doubt that the film would ever be considered "great" (19). The volume here under review seeks to atone for that criticism, although Gosh does not quite use that word. Instead, she calls her study "an attempt to revisit the film in the light of the innumerable insights I have gained in the last twelve years" (21).
Repository Citation
Thomas, Crista Z.. "Review of Fire: A Queer Film Classic, by Shohini Gosh." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss2/32