Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-Cultural Films - Interculturing Cinema

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ishani Mukherjee, Ishani Williams Mukherjee, Maggie Griffith Williams
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781498587709
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8770-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Communication Studies, Film: styles & genres