Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

ISBN-13: 9780415919463 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str.

Hamid Naficy

Opis

Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused shifts in how we define home and community. This book examines perceptions of home and exile. Critics discuss the ways film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly globalized world.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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).