This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of essays addresses how their interconnection has shaped our understanding of the paradigms through which we think about migration, ethnicity, nation, and the transnational. Cultural representations intervene in collective beliefs. Art and media clearly influence the ways the experience of migration is articulated and recalled, intervening in individual perceptions as well as public policy. To understand the connection between migration and diverse media, the authors examine how migration is represented in film, television, music, and art, but also how media shape the ways in which host country and homeland are imagined. Among the topics considered are new mediated forms for representing migration, widening the perspective on the ways these representations may be analyzed; readings of enactments of memory in trans- and inter-disciplinary ways; and discussions of globalization and transnationalism, inviting us to rethink traditional borders in respect to migration, nation states, as well as disciplines.
Author(s): Rocio G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Johanna C. Kardux
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 272
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents
......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 14
Introduction: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art......Page 16
PART I Border Crossings and (Trans) nationalism in Film......Page 28
1 Paradigms of Attitudes Toward Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century......Page 30
2 No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films......Page 45
3 Bodies and Hybrid Tropes: Border Crossings in Recent Films......Page 63
4 From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figure of the Guest Worker in Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand......Page 81
5 “Lunch with the Bigot”: 9/11 in Bollywood’s Filmic Imagination......Page 96
PART II Migrant Adaptations in Television......Page 112
6 Invisible Ethnicity: Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness......Page 114
7 Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media......Page 128
8 The Trans/migrant in the Spotlight: Space and Movement in Brazilian Telenovelas......Page 140
PART III Traveling Sounds: Music and Migration......Page 158
9 Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar......Page 160
10 Variations on a Fugitive’s Song: The Performance of Disappearance and Forced Migration in Chile......Page 185
11 Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the LosAngeles Émigrés......Page 198
PART IV Performing Ethnicity and Migration: Cultural and Artistic Practices......Page 214
12 Ethnic Nostalgia: Ethnicity as Cultural Practice in theTwenty-First Century......Page 216
13 Connoisseurs of Urban Life: Aesthetic Practices and the Everyday among Japanese Migrants in New York City......Page 227
14 “All Islands Connect Under Water”: Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements Series......Page 242
Contributors......Page 260
Index......Page 266
