Background
Naficy, Hamid was born on February 2, 1944 in Isfahan, Iran. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of Aboutorab and Batul Naficy.
(Using Iranian TV as a case study, Hamid Naficy demonstrat...)
Using Iranian TV as a case study, Hamid Naficy demonstrates that exile is a special case of transcultural and postcolonial discourse. Exile is viewed as a tripartite process: separation from home, a period of liminality that can be temporary or permanent, and finally, incorporation into the host country. The result is not unified or stable, however, it is an evolving and syncretic exile of culture and community. Exile media can tell us much about the realities of displaced cultures and communities. Such communities attempt to reconcile, through TV programs, an idealized vision of the homeland replete with concepts such as "home", "past", and "nostalgia", and simultaneously to get on with the business of functioning within a new country by developing an ethnic economy marked by the production of advertising-driven television that promotes the consumer life-style as ideal. Naficy combines ethnographic description of a 10-year study of Iranian TV programs with interviews with Iranian producers, and theorizes about concepts of exile discourse, hybridization, resistance, subjectivity, and identity that are applicable to other immigrants and their lives in this country. He identifies exile TV as its own genre, and by examining its structures of production and theorizing its systematic patterns of narration, formation, signification, subjectivity, and consumption, he breaks new ground in media studies. In a wide-ranging application of contemporary cultural and media theories, undergirded by rich ethnographic details drawn from the popular culture of Iranians in southern California, "The Making of Exile Cultures" explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to the domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously serving as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and assimilation of those values. Hamid Naficy is the author of various publications on film and television, including Iranian, and is on the editorial board of Quarterly Review of Film and Television and Public Culture. He received an MFA in film and TV production and a PhD in film and television studies from UCLA.
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Naficy, Hamid was born on February 2, 1944 in Isfahan, Iran. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of Aboutorab and Batul Naficy.
Bachelor in Telecomms., University of Southern California, 1968; Master of Fine Arts in Theater Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Film and television Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990.
Producer, director, Group W Cable, Los Angeles, 1971-1973;
assistant professor, television and Cinema College, Tehran, Iran, 1974-1975;
associate professor, Free University of Iran, Tehran, 1973-1978;
director broadcast and media center, Free University of Iran, Tehran, 1973-1978;
senior producer, director Office of Instructional Development, University of California at Los Angeles, 1980-1985;
managing editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Los Angeles, 1985-1988;
lecturer in film studies program, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1990. Lecturer ethnographic film University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1980-1981. Visiting assistant professor University of California at Los Angeles, since 1990.
Curator Decade of Iranian Cinema, 1980-1990, University of California at Los Angeles Film and television Archives, 1900.
(Using Iranian TV as a case study, Hamid Naficy demonstrat...)
(Book by Naficy, Hamid)
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Member of advisory board Transart Foundation, since 1998. Member artist advisory board DiverWorksArtSpace, since 1997. Member steering committee Los Angeles Festival, 1991-1993.
Member county Society for Iranian Studies, 1993-1996. Member Society for Cinema Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Society for Iranian Studies, Group for the Study of Composite Cultures, University Film and Video Association, Alpha Epsilon Rho (press chapter 1967-1968).
Married Carol Virginia Edwards, June 16, 1975. Children: Cameron, Shayda.