What's love got to do with it
(Un)bending identities and conventions in Gurinda Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12720955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia May (University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-276 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture and Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-5610 • E-ISSN: 1475-5629 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14755610.2010.505433 |
| OpenAlex | W2066627022 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The connection between religion and football is not lost on film-maker Gurinder Chadha, who, in her film Bend it Like Beckham Bend it Like Beckham. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Kintop Picture, 2002 [Google Scholar], charts the passions of a young woman called Jesminder (Jess), whose devotion to the game of football, and in particular David Beckham, and her determination not to cut herself off from her Sikh faith, culture and family, feature prominently in this cinematic depiction charting a young woman's quest to become a professional footballer. When applied to the study of identity formation, Gurinder Chadha transforms the bend-it-like-Beckham technique into a theoretical premise through which a critical examination into the complex trajectories and contesting traditions underscoring culture, race, gender and religious formation(s) can be examined on and off the football field
Art · Depiction · Epistemology · Faith · Football · Literature · Passion · Passions · Premise · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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Gendering Diaspora
Nation and Migration
Changing the Game
Black Skin, White Masks
Twice migrants
Contesting culture
The Empire Strikes Back?
Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse
Modern Traditions? British Muslim Women and Academic Achievement
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Sport, Racism And Ethnicity
Race', Sport and British Society
Unthinking Eurocentrism
Ethnicity Constructed and Reconstructed
Out of Bounds
The Changing Face of Football
The Impact of Religio-cultural Norms and Values on the Education of Young South Asian Women
The Ethnography of Imagined Communities
The Assimilation of Afro—Americans
The Urban Housing Crisis
Slave of a Slave No More
The Black Movement and Women's Liberation
Selections from The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
| Highly cited | No |
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