Home, Exile, Homeland

by Hamid Naficy (editor), Margaret Morse (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

262 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

Reviews

[Jessrawk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely a variety of ideas and viewpoints within this collection. A lot of it was terrifically fascinating and some of it was just plain out of place in relation to everything else. Its publication date provides an interesting window on the time before 9/11 and before the ubiquity of the Internet.