The Identity Problem in the Diaspora Movies

Abstract

Diaspora cinema is one of the manifestations of cinematic genres whose manifestations linked to concepts such as immigration, exile, and moving away from the homeland. It is the cinema of immigrants who gathered in second countries within communities or minorities. Immigrants have suffered from many problems, the most important of which is the lack of integration and fragmentation of the concept of identity between the mother homeland and the new homeland. This is evident in their cinematic works. Therefore,
chapter one of the present study includes the research problem that is centered around the following question: What is the problem related to the concept of identity in the Diaspora cinema? The chapter also includes the objectives, significance, and limits of the present study. Chapter two is divided into three sections. Section one is entitled Identity between the fixed and the transformed. Section two is entitled The process of the film form in the Diaspora cinema. Section three is entitled The concern of identity in the visual patterns of the Diaspora cinema. The chapter is concluded with a set of indicators. Chapter three includes the research community, the research sample, the research tool, and the analysis of the sample that the researcher selected for research necessities, which is the film of (Mirrors of the Diaspora) by the IraqiBritish director (Qassim Abd). Chapter four includes the results and conclusions. The present study ends with Arab and foreign references.