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

by Hamid Naficy (Editor)

Overview

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 globalized world. Ranging from intensely personal to highly theoretical, the contributors explore our complex negotiation of home and homeland in a postmodern world. Contributors: Homi Bhabha, Thomas Elsaesser, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Teshome H. Gabriel, George Lipsitz, Margaret Morse, David Morley, John Peters, Patricia Seed, Ella Shohat, and Vivian Sobchack.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919470
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1998
Series:	AFI Film Readers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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;