Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films

Interculturing Cinema

Ishani Mukherjee, Maggie Griffith Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8770-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 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 Family

Part 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 Barriers

Chapter 6. Outsourced: Holi, Kali, and Capitalism in an Indo-American Call Center

Chapter 7. Front Cover: Fashion and Fluid Sexualities in an Intra-Asian Relationship

Chapter 8. Afterword

References

About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-8770-4 / 1498587704
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8770-9 / 9781498587709
Zustand	Neuware