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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... lives ( Elsaesser 1999 ) . The poststudio “ ethnics , ” the children of Irish , Italian , and Jewish immigrants , contributed to the emergence of the New Hollywood postindustrial cinema . They produced quintessentially American films ...
... live and make films in the West in two general groupings . The first group was displaced or lured to the West from the late 1950s to the mid - 1970s by Third World decolonization , wars of national liber- ation , the Soviet Union's ...
... lives not only in relationship to the homeland but also in strictly political terms . As a result , in their early films they tend to represent their homelands and people more than themselves . The authority of the exiles as filmmaking ...
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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 |