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

Author
Naficy, Hamid [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Description
xv, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      Summary note
      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.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-348) and index.
      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.
      ISBN
      • 0691043922 ((alk. paper))
      • 9780691043920 ((alk. paper))
      • 0691043914 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780691043913 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      00057458
      OCLC
      44516753
      International Article Number
      • 9780691043913
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