| Title: | White Teeth | |
| Director 1: | Julian Jarrold | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 2002 | |
| length: | 4 x ca. 50 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | TV drama | |
| Screenwriter: | Simon Burke | |
| Cinematographer: | David Odd | |
| Editor: | Andrew Hulme | |
| Producer: | Nicolas Brown | |
| Production company: | Company Pictures for Channel 4 and WGBH Boston | |
| Cast: | Om Puri, Phil Davis, Naomi Harris, Sarah Ozeke, Archie Panjabi, etc. | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 114 | |
| Synopsis: | The four-part TV drama is an adaptation of Zadie Smith's best-selling novel "White Teeth" which relates the interwoven stories of an Asian, a black/white and a white family in multicultural Northwest London. The novel and the TV drama connect the developments of the individual families, covering a period from the 1970s to the 1990s, with earlier Caribbean, Asian and European history. | |
| Keyword 1: | colonialism | |
| Keyword 2: | Asian | |
| Keyword 3: | black | |
| Keyword 4: | white | |
| Keyword 5: | Jewish | |
| Keyword 6: | Zadie Smith | |
| Keyword 7: | generation | |
| Keyword 8: | first generation | |
| Keyword 9: | second generation | |
| Keyword 10: | Second World War | |
| Keyword 11: | London | |
| Keyword 12: | Willesden | |
| Keyword 13: | history | |
| Keyword 14: | mother-daughter relationship | |
| Keyword 15: | father-son relationship | |
| Keyword 16: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 17: | religion | |
| Keyword 18: | fundamentalism | |
| Keyword 19: | drugs | |
| Keyword 20: | class | |
| Keyword 21: | family | |
| Keyword 22: | fascism | |
| Keyword 23: | Britishness | |
| Keyword 24: | memory | |
| Keyword 25: | humour | |
| Keyword 26: | war | |
| Keyword 27: | cultural identity | |
| Text Reference 1: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
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