Hamid Naficy - Cinema Studies Institute

Hamid Naficy - Cinema Studies Institute

University of Toronto
Toronto Initiative for Iranian
Studies,
Department of Near
and Middle Eastern
Civilizations,
Department of Historical
Studies-UTM,
Department of History &
Cinema Studies Institute
in collaboration with
The Foundation for Iranian
Studies
Hamid Naficy
Professor of RadioTelevision-Film
Northwestern University
4:00-6:00 pm
8 December 2011
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue,
Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Iranian
Cinema—
A Historiography
present a public lecture on
Hamid Naficy is Professor of RadioTelevision-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa
Al-Thani Professor in Communication at
Northwestern University, where he also has
an appointment with the Department of Art
History. He is a leading authority in cultural
studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial
cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle
Eastern cinemas. Naficy has published extensively on these and allied topics. His English
language books are: An Accented Cinema:
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking; Home, Exile,
Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of
Place; The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian
Television in Los Angeles; Otherness and the
Media: the Ethnography of the Imagined and
the Imaged (co-edited); and Iran Media Index.
His latest work is the four-volume book
A Social History of Iranian Cinema.
Design: Studio A Inc., 2011
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