An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend—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 Naficy's work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person to the next, the films themselves exhibit stylistic similarities, from their open- and closed-form aesthetics to their nostalgic and m...