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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... : Atom Egoyan's Next of Kin 262 Close - Up : Mitra Tabrizian's The Third Woman 266 The Ethics and Politics of Performed Identity 269 Diegetic Staging 271 Doppelgängers , Doubling , Duplicity 272 Self - Reflexivity 276 CONTENTS ix.
... diegetic characters as from the displacement of the filmmakers and their artisanal production modes . Although many of their films are authorial and autobiographical , I problematize both authorship and autobiography by pos- iting that ...
... diegetic photographer and his on - screen wife ( played by Egoyan and his real - life wife ) leave off and where the historical persons Atom Egoyan and Arsinée Khanjian begin . The accented style is itself an example of free indirect ...
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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 |