An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic FilmmakingIn An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy's work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person to the next, the films themselves exhibit stylistic similarities, from their open- and closed-form aesthetics to their nostalgic and memory-driven multilingual narratives, and from their emphasis on political agency to their concern with identity and transgression of identity. The author explores such features while considering the specific histories of individuals and groups that engender divergent experiences, institutions, and modes of cultural production and consumption. Treating creativity as a social practice, he demonstrates that the films are in dialogue not only with the home and host societies but also with audiences, many of whom are also situated astride cultures and whose desires and fears the filmmakers wish to express. |
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... cathected to sites of confinement and control and to narratives of panic and pursuit . While the idyllic open structures of home emphasize continuity , these paranoid structures of exile underscore rupture . Significantly , the paranoid ...
... cathected sounds , images , and chronotopes that are circulated intertextually in exilic popular culture , including in films and music videos . The exiles ' primary relationship , in short , is with their countries and cultures of ...
... cathected relationship with a single homeland and on a claim that they represent it and its people . As a result , their works are expressed less in the narratives of retrospection , loss , and absence or in strictly partisanal ...
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Contents
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2 Interstitial and Artisanal Mode of Production | 40 |
3 Collective Mode of Production | 63 |
4 Epistolarity and Epistolary Narratives | 101 |
5 Chronotopes of Imagined Homeland | 152 |
Claustrophobia Contemporaneity | 188 |
7 Journeying Border Crossing and Identity Crossing | 222 |
Appendixes | 289 |
Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 317 |
Index | 349 |