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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... created astride and in the interstices of social formations and cinematic practices . Consequently , they are simultaneously local and global , and they resonate against the prevailing cinematic production practices , at the same time ...
... create and exchange meaning . Exile and epistolarity necessitate one another , for dis- tance and absence drive them both . However , by addressing someone in an epistle , an illusion of presence is created that hovers in the text's ...
... creates its own peculiar spectatorial environment that produces different demands and expectations , which are torqued not only by market forces but also by nationalist politics and by politics of ethnic representation . While the ...
... created by displaced writers and filmmakers . But exile can result in an agonistic form of liminality characterized by oscilla- tion between the extremes . It is a slipzone of anxiety and imperfection , where life hovers between the ...
... create a sovereign state . People in diaspora , moreover , maintain a long - term sense of ethnic con- sciousness and distinctiveness , which is consolidated by the periodic hostility of either the original home or the host societies ...
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 |