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Cinema without Frontiers: Transnational Women’s Filmmaking in Iran and Turkey

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Transnational Feminism in Film and Media

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Abstract

Critical attention in current film scholarship increasingly focuses on a recently discerned mode of filmmaking that is described as “exilic/diasporic.” Theorists of exilic/diasporic cinema argue that new cinematic languages articulated by members of diasporic communities in the West can be conceived of as a distinct body of work with particular cultural, aesthetic, and political attributes. Hamid Naficy’s An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (2001) offers arguably the most comprehensive account of the transnational films produced since the 1960s by exilic/diasporic directors working in the West. “Accented cinema”—a term invented by Naficy—refers to the new category that cuts across previously defined geographic, national, cultural, cinematic, and metacinematic boundaries.

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  1. Asuman Suner
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. English Department, Ohio University, USA

    Katarzyna Marciniak (Associate Professor of Transnational Studies) (Associate Professor of Transnational Studies)

  2. School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California, USA

    Anikó Imre (Assistant Professor of Critical Studies) (Assistant Professor of Critical Studies)

  3. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA

    Áine O’Healy (Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures) (Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures)

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© 2007 Katarzyna Marciniak, Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy

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Suner, A. (2007). Cinema without Frontiers: Transnational Women’s Filmmaking in Iran and Turkey. In: Marciniak, K., Imre, A., O’Healy, Á. (eds) Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609655_4

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