1st Edition
Home, Exile, Homeland Film, Media, and the Politics of Place
Edited By Hamid Naficy
Copyright 1999
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 raming exile, Hamid Naficy; Part 1 traveling concepts; Chapter 2 exile, nomadism, and diaspora, John Durham Peters; Part 2 synesthetic homing; Chapter 3 “is any body home?”, Vivian Sobchack; Chapter 4 home, Margaret Morse; Chapter 5 the intolerable gift, Teshome H. Gabrial; Chapter 6 the key to the house, Patricia Seed; Part 3 cinematic modes of production; Chapter 7 ethnicity, authenticity, and exile, Thomas Elsaesser; Chapter 8 between rocks and hard places, Naficy Hamid; Part 4 mediated collective formations; Chapter 9 bounded realms, David Morley; Chapter 10 recycling colonialist fantasies on the texas borderlands, Rosa Linda Fregoso; Chapter 11 “home is where the hatred is”, George Lipsitz; Chapter 12 by the bitstream of babylon, Ella Shohat;
Biography
Hamid Naficy is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (1993).
