Films, Literature and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy

Film and literature are two mediums one literary, the other performative which use language and image in order to capture the lived reality of cultural constructs. But the processes of producing meaning and interpreting meaning are complex and multilayered, getting caught up in histories, locations, and experiences. Neither film nor literature is a self-contained autonomous medium or artifact, and even as they use and produce culture, they become its subverters.