Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (AFI Film Readers)

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. Preface. Arrivals And Departures / Homi K. Bhabha -- Framing Exile: From Homeland To Homepage / Hamid Naficy -- Exile, Nomadism, And Diaspora: The Stakes Of Mobility In The Western Canon / John Durham Peters -- Is Anybody Home?: Embodied Imagination And Visible Evictions / Vivian Sobchack -- Home: Smell, Taste, Posture, Gleam / Margaret Morse -- The Intolerable Gift: Residues And Traces Of A Journey / Teshome H. Gabriel -- The Key To The House / Patricia Seed -- Ethnicity, Authenticity, And Exile: A Counterfeit Trade? German Filmmakers And Hollywood / Thomas Elsaesser -- Between Rocks And Hard Places: The Interstitial Mode Of Production In Exilic Cinema / Hamid Naficy -- Bounded Realms: Household, Family, Community, And Nation / David Morley -- Recycling Colonialist Fantasies Onthe Texas Borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso -- Home Is Where The Hatred Is: Work, Music, And The Transnational Economy / George Lipsitz -- By The Bitstream Of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers And Diasporic Vistas / Ella Shohat. Edited By Hamid Naficy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community. With a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha, this book examines our perceptions of home and exile. A transnational array of critics 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, who include Homi K. Bhabha, David Morley and Ella Showat, explore our complex negotiation of home and homeland Home, Exile, Homeland is the first single volume to deal with the book's twin topics, the relationship between media and exile. It is written by scholars from Europe and the States to provide a truly transcontinental perspective Such concepts as exile, diaspora, and nomadism are often invoked of late as alternatives and antidotes to the totaling character of Western society and thought.