Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films

Interculturing Cinema

AvIshani Mukherjee,Maggie Griffith Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Migration, Mobility and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema draws on existing scholarship on global movements and intercultural communication in cinema to analyze six cross-cultural films. Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams locate key themes that tie into the complexity and implications of global movements, including migrants’ experiences of culture-shock, cultural assimilation and/or integration, cultural identities in transition, social mobility and movements, and the short-term intercultural impact that sojourners experience in unfamiliar cultural space. Mukherjee and Williams explore how intercultural communication functions in the storytelling and in the formation of character relationships in these films, arguing that the depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications are complex and stressful moments of conflict that lead to mixed results. Scholars of film studies, communication, migrant studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-18
Mått:152 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:263 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498587709

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Ishani Mukherjee is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Maggie Griffith Williams is lecturer at Northeastern University and visiting scholar at Fordham University.

Recensioner i media

Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams have put together a set of analyses that connect film and intercultural communication. Through a careful and close discussion of particular texts portraying contexts of complex intercultural learning and growth, the authors have provided us with a text that can be engaged within academic contexts in the classroom (both undergraduate and graduate) as well as outside of academia. This is a much-needed bridging of cultural studies, mobilities, and migration-based reading of film as applicable to the practical everydayness of the field of intercultural communication. Writing in a manner that is accessible yet theoretically nuanced is not easy - but the authors of this book have achieved the balance.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart I. Migration: Globalization, Cultural Adaptation and Value Orientation Chapter 2. The African Doctor: Migration, Medicine, and Racialization in a French Village Chapter 3. A Better Life: Immigration Industrial Complex, Conflict Styles and Facework in a Mexican-American FamilyPart II. Movements: Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Conflict Chapter 4. Rabbit Proof Fence: Kidnapping, Colonization, and Segregation of Australian Aboriginals Chapter 5. A Borrowed Identity: Religious and Ethnic Relationships in an Israeli High School Part III. Sojourning: Non/Verbal Communication, Cultural Dimensions, and Intercultural BarriersChapter 6. Outsourced: Holi, Kali, and Capitalism in an Indo-American Call CenterChapter 7. Front Cover: Fashion and Fluid Sexualities in an Intra-Asian RelationshipChapter 8. AfterwordReferencesAbout the Authors