ABSTRACT

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.

part |13 pages

Introduction

chapter |13 pages

Raming exile

From homeland to homepage

part |27 pages

Traveling concepts

chapter |25 pages

Exile, nomadism, and diaspora

The stakes of mobility in the western canon

part |52 pages

Synesthetic homing

chapter |17 pages

“Is any body home?”

Embodied imagination and visible evictions

chapter |12 pages

Home

Smell, taste, posture, gleam

chapter |9 pages

The intolerable gift

Residues and traces of a journey

part |53 pages

Cinematic modes of production

chapter |27 pages

Ethnicity, authenticity, and exile

A counterfeit trade? german filmmakers and hollywood

chapter |23 pages

Between rocks and hard places

The interstitial mode of production in exilic cinema

part |84 pages

Mediated collective formations

chapter |18 pages

Bounded realms

Household, family, community, and nation

chapter |20 pages

“Home is where the hatred is”

Work, music, and the transnational economy

chapter |20 pages

By the bitstream of babylon

Cyberfrontiers and diasporic vistas