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

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.

Author: Hamid Naficy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/01/1998
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.02w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780415919470

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/1998

About the Author

Hamid Naficy is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Rice University. He is the author of TheMaking of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in LosAngeles (1993).