Aesthetic practices and politics in media, music, and art
Subtitle: performing migration
By: edited by Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux.
Contributors: Davis, Rocío G.; Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-; Kardux, Johanna C., 1954-
Series: Routledge research in cultural and media studies -- 26
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415882903
Subjects: Emigration and immigration in motion pictures; Ethnicity in motion pictures; Emigration and immigration on television; Ethnicity on television; Ethnicity in the theater; Ethnicity in music; Arts and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rocio G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux; title: Border crossings and (trans)nationalism in film. Paradigms of attitudes towards immigration : science fiction films as allegories in the mid-century / Juan Bruce-Novoa; title: No country for old certainties : ambivalence, hybridity, and dangerous crossings in three borderland films / Page Laws; title: Bodies and hybrid tropes : border crossings in recent films / Cathy Covell Waegner; title: From alien nation to alienation : tracing the figure of the guest worker in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand / Tessa C. Lee; title: Lunch with the bigot : 9/11 in Bollywood's filmic imagination / Mita Banerjee; title: Migrant adaptations in television. Invisible ethnicity : Canadian erasure, vanishing Dutchness / Aritha Van Herk; title: Performing linguistic identity and integration : the politics of interpellation in the Catalonian media / Klaus Zilles; title: The trans/migrant in the spotlight : space and movement in Brazilian telenovelas / Gundo Rial y Costas; title: Traveling sounds : music and migration. Migratory objects in the Balkans : when the sound of the other sounds strangely familiar / Maria Boletsi; title: Variations on a fugitive's song : the performance of disappearance and forced migration in Chile / Nicols Salazar-Sutil; title: Immigration and modernism : Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles émigrés / Kenneth J. Marcus; title: Performing ethnicity and migration : cultural and artistic practices. Ethnic nostalgia : ethnicity as cultural practice in the twenty-first century / Marcus Embry; title: Connoisseurs of urban life : aesthetic practices and the everyday among Japanese migrants in New York City / Olga Kanzaki Sooudi; title: All islands connect under water : Ping Chong's Undesirable elements series / Roberta De Martini.