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Naficy, Hamid. . Accented cinema : exilic and diasporic filmmaking / Hamid Naficy. 0691043922 series Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.D44 N34 2001
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.D44 N34 2001
This is an overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. The author Hanid Naficy focuses on how their personal experience of exile or diasporas were translated and influenced the way of their filmmaking. The book argues that although the experience of displacement and expatriation varies from case to case, they share much characteristics in common, such as stylistic similarities, nostalgic or memory-oriented narrative, and their multilingual tendency. The author also has insight on their emphasis on political agency and concern with identity as well as transgression of identity.
The author mentions Sergei Paradjanov as an example of a creator in exile as a result of antagonistic-state and artist relations. As is mentioned elsewhere, he was accused of homosexuality, currency fraud, and incitement to suicide was forced to serve in the prison camp for five years (which was later to be reduced to four years after the protest his contemporaries (including Andrei Tarkovsky) has fought against the government. He asserts that Paradjanov favors the use of the journey as a metaphor for psychological and spiritual transformation which was also a convenient ground for displaying the colorful ethnography.
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Women, transition, and change : a study of the impact of conflict and displacement on women in traditional Tamil society. Colombo : Institute of Agriculture and Women in Development, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and Gala Academic Press, c1995.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HQ1735.8 .W645 1995
Call#: Van Pelt Library HQ1735.8 .W645 1995