Features the essays that focus on the connection between issues of migration and media. This title addresses how their interconnection has become part of our understanding of the world's global cities, and the paradigms through which we think about...
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Features the essays that focus on the connection between issues of migration and media. This title addresses how their interconnection has become part of our understanding of the world's global cities, and the paradigms through which we think about ethnicity and nation
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Part I: Border Crossings and (Trans)nationalism in Film; 1 Paradigms of Attitudes Toward Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century; 2 No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films; 3 Bodies and Hybrid Tropes Border Crossings in Recent Films; 4 From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figure of the Guest Worker in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand; 5 "Lunch with the Bigot": 9/11 in Bollywood's Filmic Imagination
Part II: Migrant Adaptations in Television6 Invisible Ethnicity: Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness; 7 Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media; 8 The Trans/migrant in the Spotlight: Space and Movement in Brazilian Telenovelas; Part III: Traveling Sounds: Music and Migration; 9 Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar1; 10 Variations on a Fugitive's Song: The Performance of Disappearance and Forced Migration in Chile
11 Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles ÉmigrésPart IV: Performing Ethnicity and Migration: Cultural and Artistic Practices; 12 Ethnic Nostalgia: Ethnicity as Cultural Practice in the Twenty-First Century; 13 Connoisseurs of Urban Life: Aesthetic Practices and the Everyday among Japanese Migrants in New York City; 14 "All Islands Connect Under Water": Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements Series; Contributors; Index