An accented cinema : exilic and diasporic filmmaking

An accented cinema : exilic and diasporic filmmaking / Hamid Naficy.

An overview of 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 the text. The text presents comprehensive and global coverage of this genre.

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Main Author: Naficy, Hamid
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Developing countries.
Intercultural communication in motion pictures.
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Table of Contents:
  • Situating accented cinema
  • Interstitial and artisanal mode of production
  • Collective mode of production
  • Epostolarity and epostolary narratives
  • Chronotopes of imagined homeland
  • Chronotopes of life in exile: claustrophobia, contemporaneity
  • Journeying, border crossing, and identity crossing.

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