First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hamid Naficy is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Rice University. He is the author of TheMaking of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in LosAngeles (1993).

Introduction; Chapter 1 raming exile, Hamid Naficy; Part 1 traveling concepts; Chapter 2 exile, nomadism, and diaspora, John Durham Peters; Part 2 synesthetic homing; Chapter 3 "is any body home?", Vivian Sobchack; Chapter 4 home, Margaret Morse; Chapter 5 the intolerable gift, Teshome H. Gabrial; Chapter 6 the key to the house, Patricia Seed; Part 3 cinematic modes of production; Chapter 7 ethnicity, authenticity, and exile, Thomas Elsaesser; Chapter 8 between rocks and hard places, Naficy Hamid; Part 4 mediated collective formations; Chapter 9 bounded realms, David Morley; Chapter 10 recycling colonialist fantasies on the texas borderlands, Rosa Linda Fregoso; Chapter 11 "home is where the hatred is", George Lipsitz; Chapter 12 by the bitstream of babylon, Ella Shohat;