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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Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Hamid Naficy. AN ACCENTED CINEMA Hamid Naficy AN ACCENTED CINEMA Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking.
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Hamid Naficy. Hamid Naficy AN ACCENTED CINEMA Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS . PRINCETON AND OXFORD. Title ...
... diasporic filmmaking / Hamid Naficy . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-691-04392-2 — ISBN 0-691-04391-4 ( pbk .: alk . paper ) 1. Motion pictures — Developing countries . 2. Intercultural communica- tion ...
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Hamid Naficy. Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Situating Accented Cinema Accented Filmmakers xi xiii 3 10 10 Exilic Filmmakers Diasporic Filmmakers 11 13 Tactile Optics The ...
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Hamid Naficy. Introduction IN JUNE 1995 , while conducting research in Paris for this ... diaspora , deterritorialized peoples and their films share certain features , which in today's climate of lethal ...
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 |