... that the women who have risen to the top ranks of auteurs have negotiated discourses of female exceptionality both in their personae and in their films, which engage questions of national identity and historical accountability through the situation of their female protagonists. art cinema auteur theory...

... and style undermine them. Persepolis marks its physical distance from Iran through animation; Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men (2010) does so through stylization. All are examples of what Hamid Naficy calls “accented cinema.” This chapter considers the role of diasporan women filmmakers in facilitating...

...Cinema and Animation ...