Reimagining the European Family [electronic resource] : Cultures of Immigration /
Simpson, P.author.
Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration; One Defining the "German" Family in the European Context: Men at Work; Two Elective Affinities: Motherhood and Families Without Borders; Three Russian German Immigration and Imagined Families; Four Japanese German Kinships: Imagining Postwar Masculinity; Five Immigration Nations: Comedy and the New Family; Conclusion Postfamilial Europe?; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Ethnology—Europe.
Ethnicity.
Motion pictures—History.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Family.
European Culture.
Ethnicity Studies.
Film History.