内容简介
Originalessaysandgloriousphotography,stunninglydesignedinthisuniquemoviebookfromthedirectorofMonsoonWeddingandVanityFair—aFoxSearchlightrelease.Inheressay"WritingandFilm,"thePulitzerPrize-winningnovelistJhumpaLahiriwritesabouttheexperienceofseeinghernovel"transposed"frompapertofilm."Itsessenceremains,butitinhabitsadifferentrealmandmust,likeatransposedpieceofmusic,conformtoadifferentsetofrules?.TohavesomeoneasdevotedandasgiftedasMirareinventmynovel?hasbeenahumblingandthrillingpassage."MiraNair'sessay,"PhotographsasInspiration,"beginswiththeprovocativecomment:"Ifitweren'tforphotography,Iwouldn'tbeafilmmaker."SheexplainshowphotographshelphercrystallizethevisualstyleofherfilmsandwhichparticularphotosinfluencedhervisionforTheNamesake.Thesetwoessays,writtenexclusivelyforthisNewmarketPictorialMoviebook,introduceanamazingpanoplyofimagesofpeopleandplacesshotmainlyinNewYorkandCalcuttaduringthemakingofthemovie,accentedbyexcerptsfromLahiri'sbestsellingnovel.SixIndianandAmericanphotographers'worksarerepresented.Brilliantlyilluminatingtheimmigrantexperienceandthetangledtiesbetweengenerations,TheNamesaketellsthestoryoftheGangulifamily,whosemovefromCalcuttatoNewYorkevokesalifelongbalancingacttoadapttoanewworldwhilerememberingtheold.Thecouple'sfirstborn,Gogol,andsisterSoniagrowupamidthesedividedloyalties,strugglingtofindtheirownidentitywithoutlosingtheirheritage.KalPenn(Harold&KumarGotoWhiteCastle,SupermanReturns)starsasGogol.
作者简介
MiraNairistheinternationallyacclaimeddirectorofMonsoonWedding,SalaamBombay!,VanityFair,MississippiMasala,ThePerezFamily,KamaSutra:ATaleofLove,andHystericalBlindness.JhumpaLahiri,theauthorofInterpreterofMaladiesandTheNamesake,hasbeentherecipientofthePulitzerPrize,thePEN/HemingwayAward,andaGuggenheimfellowship.PhotographersrepresentedincludeFrederickElmes,NemaiGhosh,MilanMoudgill,andDayanitaSingh.