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From: Brian Shoesmith <b.shoesmith@cowan.edu.au>
List Editor: Ken Nolley <knolley@willamette.edu>
Editor's Subject: Re: Films on Exile and Immigration
Author's Subject: Re: Films on Exile and Immigration
Date Written: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:55:10 -0800
Date Posted: Sun, 02 Mar 1996 12:55:10 -0500

I was wondering if films about exile and immigration was to be
confined to the American experience.  Thankfully not! However, I we
thinking only about feature films?

Australia: there's a feature called Silver Town; about the migrant
experience in Australia in the 1950s.  There are also a fair number
of government documentaries around immigrant issues.

India: I can't itemise the films here but there are lots of masala
films that explore (peripherally) the movement of people from the
country to the city.  Try Salaam Bombay.

Brian Shoesmith

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