... Jody to "soldier," later events prove this a hollow claim. When Jude rediscovers Fergus in London, he initially refuses to help her, or the IRA, telling her he's "out" for good. After threatening him and Dil, and, aptly (given the film's increasingly spatial understanding...

.... Aamir Khan as Dil Navaz in Earth. Courtesy Zeitgeist Films Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta’s Earth Jeanette Herman Besides in its nature referring to events which cannot be retrieved or fully relived, then, remembering appears to demand no necessary...

... pathology. Outlining the contours of Jordan’s play for the black women he creates, bell hooks observes: “Long before viewers of The Crying Game know that Dil is a transvestite, they are intrigued by her exoticism- marked by her race. Not just any 01’ Black woman, she/he embodies the ‘tragic...

... investment in spectacularizing Dixit’s dancing body. A different type of doubling occurs in the “dance-­off,” a production number starring two accomplished dancers. A com- mon attraction in films with dancer-­actresses, the dance-­off is fea- tured in two Dixit films,Dil to pagal hai (The Heart...

.... In this escalating moment instigated by Mürtüz’s intensify- ing frustration not only with Thomas’s presence but also with Dil- ber’s refusal of his own repeated sexual advances, he confronts Dilber before his parents and attempts to shame her into acquies- cence...

... gridded onto him (Dil's blackness, the Asian figures of Concubine and But- terfly, the Latinos and African-American men of Paris, especially Venus XTravaganza). The purported tragedy and pathos ofthe "male- as-female" character, moreover, is achieved quite literally at the ex- pense of the "female...

... becomes a conceptual space in which the lesbian pluralizes herself. In Safe Is Desire, the closing credits are accompanied by another technolhouse song, "Is it like my Dil-doe?" Summarizing the video's conceptual labor, the song's title and repetitious lyric invert the usual...

... Name.” Nestled among these images of global conflict and contestation is a single photograph of our protagonist Theo (Clive Owen), his partner  Julian ( Julianne Moore), and their baby Dil- lon, and the camera slowly closes in on the photograph, accentuat- ing the vulnerability of the white...