Accented Cinema: A One-Week Short Course
With Film Festival Fellow Hamid Naficy
Since WW II, and especially since the 1960s, vast global economic and structural changes have displaced peoples around the world in unprecedented numbers, creating veritable “other” worlds of communities living outside of their places of birth. Cinema has been global from the start and throughout its history displaced artists have made films that enriched the cinemas of both their homelands and adopted lands. These expatriate, exile, refugee, émigré, and postcolonial films and videos are usually discussed under such rubric as “national cinemas” “auteur cinema,” “genre cinema,” or “independent cinema.” The purpose of this short course, however, is to problematize these categories and to explore these films on their own terms as products of a particular [dis]location of their makers in time and place, in social life, and in film and media industries. It examines the extent to which these films arise from a new production mode and result in an “accented” style.
Schedule
October 27-29, 7-10pm– Class Lecture (CLM 407)
October 30, 4-5:30pm– Keynote Talk: “From Accented Cinema Toward Multiplex Cinema” (Harrison Institute Auditorium, Small Special Collections Library)
Fri-Sun October 31 –November 2
Oct. 31, 3pm: Gender, Race and Film Panel (Campbell 160)
Oct. 31, 4pm or 7pm: Babel with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Culbreth Theatre)
Nov. 1, 10am: Life on Earth with director Abderrahmane Sissako (Regal Downtown)
Nov. 1, 4pm: Home (Stories) and Me Films and Skype video chat with Ghazel (from Paris, France) (Regal Downtown)
Nov. 2, 10am: Shot-by-Shot Workshop on El Norte with director Gregory Nava (Regal)
