Earth

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Citations sur Earth [en anglais]

« With one hand [Deepa] Mehta offers the familiar gesture of memory as commemoration and forgetting—the neat national narrative of partition as the cost of independence, as a part of a national history that exists only in the past—and with the other hand she takes away the comfort of resting in this narrative. By refusing to resolve either Shanta's abduction or Lenny's experience of loss and trauma, Earth constructs a form of partition memory that is as much about the present as about the past and that speaks to the necessity of engaging with divisive and violent histories in order to enable new kinds of community in the future. »
-- Jeannette Herman (source)

« Bapsi Sidhwa's novel is written in English, and although she wrote the screenplay in English as well, Mehta decided to make the film in Hindi titled Earth. 'Most of the characters in Earth are working class people and the thought of them speaking English in 1947 felt ludicrous, though some relevant scenes remain in English.' »
-- Somdatta Mandal (source)

« [Deepa] Mehta's trilogy [Fire, Earth, and Water] binds the elemental with the feminine and probes the way women are preyed upon and shackled by social institutions, pulverized and bartered by patriarchy. The trilogy represents in its totality a powerful and significant cultural challenge to the dominating masculine values and practices of oppression, subjugation and exploitation of women. Since Mehta happens to be a woman director, her courage in the face of intimidation by the largely patriarchal forces must be acknowledged as the immensely relevant preface to her film Water. »
-- Tutun Mukherjee (source)

« Living in India in this anniversary year [2017, the 70th anniversary of the partition of India], I recently watched Earth for the first time in fifteen years. In one hundred luminous minutes, [Deepa] Mehta captures the scale of India's division with nuance, cinematic eloquence, and emotional depth. The film is an historical drama that circumvents its staid genre by shifting the focus away from leaders and rallies to a small group of friends ripped apart by politics. It is an intimate piece that ruptures and expands in scale as history intervenes. Earth feels both timeless and timely. Since its first screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, it has aged into a new wisdom and relevance. »
-- Bilal Qureshi (source)

« Deepa Mehta's Earth is a painful and horrifying tale of the partition of India and its aftermath. Its technical accomplishments alone make it worthy of attention: an economic and imaginative use of colours, sound, sophisticated cross-cutting, editing and graphic compositions which are sometimes as detailed and evocative as paintings. [...] The film seems to work as a mirror image of the rise of communal frenzy, hatred and violence in India [in the 1940s], but in reflecting that rise the film may be most important as an attempt to expose it to the Indian audience that was so involved in this frenzy. »
-- Neelam Raisinghani (source)

« Deepa Mehta came across my book, Cracking India [US title of Ice-Candy-Man], and decided: 'this is the film I want to make, this is Earth!' [...] So she started to work on the screenplay and, whenever she finished a section, she would send it to me—we would fax each other in those days; I would suggest alterations, but very soon I backed off. I realized her cinematic vision was more important for the film than my writer's vision. I am glad about it, because in this way she was free to make the film as she did. I had different ideas about how to render Lenny's thoughts in the film; I imagined them as a voice-over heard on a close-up of Ice-candy-man's toes for example, darting up Ayah's saris, whatever. But Deepa said she was uncomfortable with voice-overs. She would hold the camera at an angle that would represent Lenny's vision. »
-- Bapsi Sidhwa (source)

Bibliographie sur Earth

Chapitres de livres

• CHADHA, Simran. « Marginalised by Domesticity: The (Un) Desirable Women of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy - Fire, Earth and Water » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 85-99. [en anglais]
• CHATTERJEE, Madhuri. « Women's Bodies, Women's Voices: Exploring Women's Sensuality in Deepa Mehta's Trilogy » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 75-84. [en anglais]
• FUNG, Amy. « Earth » , dans The Cinema of Canada, sous la direction de Jerry White, London, Wallflower, 2006, pp. 214-222. [en anglais]
• JAIN, Jasbir. « The Diasporic Eye and the Evolving I: Deepa Media's Elements Trilogy » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 54-74. [en anglais]
• JODHA, Avinash. « Packaging India: The Fabric of Deepa Mehta's Cinematic Art » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 39-53. [en anglais]
• MANDAL, Somdatta. « Re-Presenting the Partition of India: From Bapsi Sidhwa to Deepa Mehta » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 142-155. [en anglais]
• RAISINGHANI, Neelam. « Wounded India in Deepa Mehta's 1947-Earth » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 156-167. [en anglais]
• SHASTRI, Sudha. « Looking for Ways of Representation: 'Looking' as a Trope in 1947-Earth » , dans Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, sous la direction de Jasbir Jain, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2007, pp. 128-141. [en anglais]

Brèves parties de livres

• MONK, Katherine. Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena, Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 2001. [en anglais] (p. 291)

Articles de revues scientifiques

• BANDYOPADHYAY, Sekhar et Giacomo LICHTNER. « Indian Cinema and the Presentist Use of History: Conceptions of 'Nationhood' in Earth and Lagaan », Asian Survey, vol. 48, no. 3 (2008), pp. 431-452. [en anglais]
• BARENSCOTT, Dorothy. « 'This Is Our Holocaust': Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma », Mediascape (printemps 2006). [en anglais]
• BUDDE, Robert. « The 'Valuable Deformity': Calipers and the Failed Trope of Postcolonial Debt in Deepa Mehta's Earth », Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques, vol. 17, no. 1 (printemps 2008), pp. 44-51. [en anglais]
• CHOWDHARY, Reema et Nirmala MENON. « Muslim Identity and Representation in Deepa Mehta's Earth and Abhishek Kapur's Kai Po Che », Postcolonial Text, vol. 11, no. 2 (2016). [en anglais]
• GAIROLA, Rahul K. « Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth », South Asian Review, vol. 39, no. 3-4 (octobre 2018), pp. 283-297. [en anglais]
• HERMAN, Jeanette. « Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth », Camera Obscura, vol. 20, no. 1 58 (2005), pp. 107-147. [en anglais]
• MAJITHIA, Sheetal. « Rethinking Postcolonial Melodrama and Affect », Modern Drama, vol. 58, no. 1 (2015), pp. 1-23. [en anglais]
• NEUTILL, Rani. « Bending Bodies, Borders and Desires in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth », South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 1 (avril 2010), pp. 73-87. [en anglais]
• QURESHI, Bilal. « The Discomforting Legacy of Deepa Mehta's Earth », Film Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4 (2017), pp. 77-82. [en anglais]
• SHAILO, Iqbal. « Bollywood of India: Geopolitical Texts of Belonging and Difference and Narratives of Mistrust and Suspicion », CINEJ Cinema Journal, vol. 5, no. 2 (2016), pp. 105-129. [en anglais]
• URAIZEE, Joya. « Gazing at the Beast: Describing Mass Murder in Deepa Mehta's Earth and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda », Shofar, vol. 28, no. 4 (été 2010), pp. 10-28. [en anglais]

Brèves parties d'articles de revue scientifiques

• BRUSCHI, Isabella. « Making up with Painful History: The Partition of India in Bapsi Sidhwa's Work; Bapsi Sidhwa Interviewed by Isabella Bruschi », entretien avec Bapsi Sidhwa, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 43, no. 3 (2008). (pp. 148-149) [en anglais]

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

• GONZALEZ-IBBITSON, Adrien. « Earth », critique de Earth, Séquences, novembre-décembre 1999.
• KEMP, Philip. « Earth », critique de Earth, Sight & Sound, juin 2000. [en anglais]
• KLADY, Leonard. « Earth », critique de Earth, Variety, 12 octobre 1998. [en anglais]

Chapitres de thèses

• PARMAR, Prabhjot. « Cartographic Split, Sectarian Strife, and Desire for Peace: Deepa Mehta and Earth » , dans Divided Land, Divided Bodies: Representations of Nationalism and Violence in Literature and Films on the Partition of India, 2007. Thèse de doctorat, University of Western Ontario, pp. 229-245. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur Earth

• « IMDb: Earth », Internet Movie Database, Inc, http://imdb.com/title/tt0150433/combined. [en anglais]