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Book SynopsisMigration, 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, a
Table 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
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About the Authors
