New Waves: This is Not a Film

Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio/Television/Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, where he also is an affiliate faculty at the Department of Art History and is a core faculty member in the Middle East and North African Studies Program. Naficy is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial media, and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. 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 award-winning four-volume A Social History of Iranian Cinema, published in 2011-12. He has also published extensively in Persian, including a two-volume book on documentary cinema theory and history, Film-e Mostanad. He has also produced and directed many avant-garde, educational, and documentary films.

After studying psychology, theatre, and film, Anna Brusutti worked at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles and has taught cultural studies and film at various institutions. She curates two annual film events and collaborates with cultural organizations. She has welcomed the opportunity to teach in the Film and Media Studies department and has done so for a number of years, teaching courses in Italian cinema, film noir, and children’s media.