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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... Film Production and Reception Interstitial Production Close - Up : Ghasem Ebrahimian's The Suitors Collective Exhibition and Exile Festivals British Postcolonial Workshops and Collectives Beur Cinema in France 4. Epistolarity and Epistolary ...
... filmmakers ' search for funding . George Murphy ( John Wodja ) in Amir Naderi's Manhattan by ... epistolary communication . Unable to write letters , Chantal Akerman ... films the cinematog- rapher in Atom Egoyan's Calendar . 138 16. The ...
... films ' narratives is their epistolar- ity , involving the use of the formal ... films . Epistolarity is also counterhegemonic because it challenges the ... epistolary films : film - letters , telephonic epistles , and letter - films ...
... cinema , more often than not , the actor's ethnicity , the character's ethnicity , and the ethnicity of the star's persona coincide . However , in some of these films the coincidence is problematized , as in the epistolary films of ...
... films , particularly the epistolary variety , destabilize the omniscient narrator and narrative system of the mainstream cinema and jour- nalism . Film letters often contain the characters ' direct address ( usually in first- person ...
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 |