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Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films
Interculturing Cinema
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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.
By Ishani Mukherjee, Maggie Griffith Williams
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 174
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
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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.