Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community. With a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha, this book examines our perceptions of home and exile. A transnational array of critics discuss the way film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly globalized world. Ranging from intensely personal to highly theoretical, the contributors, who include Homi K. Bhabha, David Morley and Ella Showat, explore our complex negotiation of "home" and homeland".
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Home, boundaries, identity, exile?what are they? Do they refer to the body, a community, a country, a time, an artistic expression, a place on the internet? Naficy (film/media studies, Rice Univ.) presents a collection of essays examining these questions both in philosophical terms and in relation to film, music, cyberspace, and life experience. Authors from a variety of backgrounds have contributed insightful pieces ranging in tone from scholarly to personal, from John Durham Peters's examination of the concepts of exile and nomadism to Teshome H. Gabriel's touching reminiscence of a journey home. Of particular resonance is Rosa Linda Fregoso's essay on Texas border culture and its depiction in film. Other essays explore early German emigre filmmakers, the new frontiers of cyberspace, and individual struggles with body and mind. Although the book's focus is occasionally blurred by the broadness of the subject, it can also be argued that this freedom from rigid thematic restrictions has made for a more thought-provoking collection. For scholarly and academic libraries.?Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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).
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Such concepts as exile, diaspora, and nomadism are often invoked of late as alternatives and antidotes to the totaling character of Western society and thought. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Such concepts as exile, diaspora, and nomadism are often invoked of late as alternatives and antidotes to the totaling character of Western society and thought. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exilic filmmakers, exilic mode, exilic cinema, drywall workers, banda music, border paradigm, interstitial mode, little clay cup, accented style, border discourse, hamid naficy, margaret morse, third cinema, transnational economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, Lone Star, University of Minnesota Press, University of California Press, Warner Brothers, Fritz Lang, Indiana University Press, Martyrs of the Alamo, Billy Wilder, Emil Jannings, Banda Machos, John Sayles, Santa Anna, Atom Egoyan, Columbia University Press, Forget the Alamo, Gawat Izzawi, Hebrew Bible, Iranian Television, Karl Freund, Middle Easterners, North American, Russell Lee New!
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- Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) by Ella Shohat on page 215, page 216, and Back Matter
- The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) by Homi K. Bhabha on page 23, page 151, and Back Matter
- The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles by Hamid Naficy on page 24, and page 78
- White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo on page 137, and page 151
- Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present, With a new postscript. (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Anthony Heilbut on page 105, and page 107
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- An Accented Cinema : Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking by Hamid Naficy on 6 pages
- An Accented Cinema : Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking by Hamid Naficy on 6 pages
- Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Film and Culture) by Elisabeth Bronfen on 4 pages
- Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Film and Culture) by Elisabeth Bronfen on 4 pages
- Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics by Marsha Meskimmon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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