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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... Homelessness 225 Close - Up : Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies 226 Homecoming Journey 229 Close - Up : Fernando Solanas's South and The Journey 230 Close - Up : Ann Hui's Song of the Exile 233 Borders and Border Crossings 237 Border ...
... homelessness . Letters and papers pouring down the stairwell during a “ letter song " in Fernando Solanas's Tangos : Exile of Gardel . 9. Prohibition against epistolary communication . Unable to write letters , Chantal Akerman ...
... deterritorializing and reterritorializing journeys , which take several forms , in- cluding home - seeking journeys , journeys of homelessness , and homecoming journeys . However , these journeys are not just physical INTRODUCTION 5.
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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 |