Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-Cultural Films
Interculturing Cinema
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Popular culture Communication Studies Globalization and conflict Cross-cultural cinema Migration and sojourning Mobility studies Cultural Studies Cultural identities intercultural communication- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- i–viii Preface i–viii
- 55–92 Part II Movements 55–92
- 93–144 Part III Sojourning 93–144
- 145–158 References 145–158
- 159–164 Index 159–164
- 165–166 About the Authors 165–166