Ishani Mukherjee, Maggie Griffith Williams

Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films

Interculturing Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses an intercultural communication lens to analyze six cross-cultural films and their depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications. It argues that the results of these complex and stressful moments of conflict include personal growth, oppression, familial or social separation, and loss of identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781498587686
• ISBN-10: 1498587682
• Artikelnr.: 60072324

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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