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Hamid Naficy

Department of Radio/Television/Film

Hamid Naficy, a leading authority on cinema and television in the Middle East, has produced many educational films and experimental videos and has published extensively about theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas. His many publications include such well-known titles as An Accented Cinema, The Making of Exile Cultures, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, Iran Media Index, and the AFI anthology, Home, Exile, Homeland.

Education

PhD	Critical Studies of Film and Television, UCLA
MFA	Film and Television Production, UCLA
BA	Telecommunications, University of Southern California

Publications

“Palestinian Exilic Cinema and Film Letters,” in Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. Edited by Hamid Dabashi. New York: Verso. 2006. Pp 90-104.

“Situating Accented Cinema,” in Transnational Cinema, the Film Reader. Edited Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden. London and New York: Routledge. 2006, Pp. 111-129.

“Theorizing ‘Third World’ Film Spectatorship: the Case of Iran and Iranian Cinema,” in Genre, Gender, Race, and Global Cinema. Edited by Julie Codell. London: Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming 2006.

“Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes—the Case of Grass (1924),” in Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel. Edited by Jeffrey Ruoff. Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. 117-138.

“Mitra Tabrizian with Andy Goldberg and Zadoc Nava: Border,” Portfolio no. 44, (December 2006), Pp. 26-35.

“Making Films with an Accent: Iranian Émigré Cinema,” Cineaste vol. 31, no. 3 (Summer 2006), Pp. 42-44.

"Spazi Fobici e Panici Liminali: Il genre cinematografico independente transnazionale," in Frontiere: Il cinema e le narrazioni dell’identità: Nazione, sesson, gender, razza tra tradizione e traduzione. Edited and translated into Italian by Federica Giovannelli. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2005, Pp. 239-268.

Kiarostami’s “Close-Up: Questioning Reality, Realism, and Neorealism,” in Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. Edited by Jeffrey Geiger and R. L. Rutsky, New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2005. Pp. 794-812.

“Dubbing, Doubling, and Duplicity,” Pages, no. 4 (July 2005), Pp. 113-117.

“Epistolarity and Textuality in Accented Films,” in Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film. Edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. 132-151.

Recent Awards and Honors

Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council.

Courses

RTVF 426-0

Studies in Cross-Cultural Analysis of Radio/TV/Film