Aesthetic practices and politics in media, music, and art : performing migration / edited by Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux. - New York ; London : Routledge, c2011. - xiv, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 26 . - Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 26 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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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.

700.4552 / AES 2011