For Western eyes: Nelofer Pazira's accented returns to Afghanistan

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dc.contributor.authorImran, Rahaten
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-25T08:42:33Z
dc.date.available2023-10-25T08:42:33Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.description.abstractAppropriating relevant elements from Iranian film scholar Hamid Naficy’s formulation of an ‘Accented Cinema’ (2001) that addresses various aspects of diasporic filmmaking and filmmakers ‘situated in the interstices of social formations and cinematic practices’ (4) as guiding tropes for analysis, this paper focuses on the depiction of the post-Taliban period through a contextual and critical reading of Nelofer Pazira’s first documentary film Return to Kandahar (2003) and her debut feature film Act of Dishonour (2009) on the topic of 'honour-killing.' The paper examines how these films portray ‘accented’ images captured and relayed by a diaspora Afghan woman filmmaker to appeal to distant and unversed Western/foreign audiences and film festivals. In addition to Naficy's formulation of the 'accented cinema', I argue that Pazira uses a formulaic accent and variances (also to be read as her emphases) in her depictions that are aimed specifically at appealing to Western audiences.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationImran, R. (2023) 'For Western eyes: Nelofer Pazira's accented returns to Afghanistan', CINEJ Cinema Journal, 11(1), pp. 116-169. doi: 10.5195/cinej.2023.463en
dc.identifier.doi10.5195/cinej.2023.463 en
dc.identifier.eissn2158-8724en
dc.identifier.endpage169en
dc.identifier.issn2159-2411en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCINEJ Cinema Journalen
dc.identifier.startpage116en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15157
dc.identifier.volume11en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPitt Open Library Publishingen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::MSCA-IF-EF-ST/837154/EU/Locating the Storyteller: Muslim Women’s Auto/Biographical Cinema from the Islamic World/MUSLIMWOMENFILMen
dc.rights© 2023, the Author. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAfghanistanen
dc.subjectWomen filmmakersen
dc.subjectAccented cinemaen
dc.subjectDiasporaen
dc.subjectTalibanen
dc.subject'War on Terror'en
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectHonour-killingen
dc.subjectReligious fundamentalismen
dc.titleFor Western eyes: Nelofer Pazira's accented returns to Afghanistanen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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