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Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music,
part |2 pages
Part I: Border Crossings and (Trans)nationalism in Film
chapter 1|15 pages
Paradigms of Attitudes Toward Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century
chapter 2|18 pages
No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films
chapter 4|15 pages
From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figure of the Guest Worker in Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand
part |2 pages
Part II: Migrant Adaptations in Television
chapter 7|12 pages
Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media
chapter 8|18 pages
The Trans/migrant in the Spotlight: Space and Movement in Brazilian Telenovelas
part |2 pages
Part III: Traveling Sounds: Music and Migration
chapter 9|25 pages
Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar MARIA BOLETSI
chapter 10|13 pages
Variations on a Fugitive’s Song: The Performance of Disappearance and Forced Migration in Chile
chapter 11|16 pages
Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Émigrés
part |2 pages
Part IV: Performing Ethnicity and Migration: Cultural and Artistic Practices