{"product_id":"migration-mobility-and-sojourning-in-crosscultural-films-9781498587686","title":"Migration Mobility and Sojourning in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMigration, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Migration: Globalization, Cultural Adaptation and Value Orientation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The African Doctor: Migration, Medicine, and Racialization in a French Village \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. A Better Life: Immigration Industrial Complex, Conflict Styles and Facework in a Mexican-American Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Movements: Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Conflict \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Rabbit Proof Fence: Kidnapping, Colonization, and Segregation of Australian Aboriginals \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. A Borrowed Identity: Religious and Ethnic Relationships in an Israeli High School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Sojourning: Non\/Verbal Communication, Cultural Dimensions, and Intercultural Barriers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Outsourced: Holi, Kali, and Capitalism in an Indo-American Call Center\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Front Cover: Fashion and Fluid Sexualities in an Intra-Asian Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040851591511,"sku":"9781498587686","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498587686.jpg?v=1750948059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migration-mobility-and-sojourning-in-crosscultural-films-9781498587686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}