Screen LibraryGlobal migration, social change, and cultural transformation
The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and t...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 280 p. |
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9780230600546 9780230608726 : 0230608728 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | PART I: INTRODUCTION * Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation - Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne & Patricia Ploesch * PART II: GLOBAL MIGRATION * "Most Overrated Western Virtue": Rationality and Anti-Rationality in Zadie Smith's White Teeth - Grace Hong * Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Dilwale Duhania Le Jayenge and Monsoon Wedding - Jenny Sharpe * Comparing Emerati and Egyptian Narratives on Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body - Frances Hasso * Responses to Changing U.S. Immigration and Culture - Toby Miller * PART III: SOCIAL CHANGE * Toward a Theorization of the United States' "Prison Regime": White Supremacy, Bodily Immobilization, and the "Society Structured in Dominance" - Dylan Rodriguez * Third World Cinema Newsreel: Third Cinema Practice in the U.S. - Cynthia Young * Advocacy and Empowerment for New York Latino Farmworkers - Maggie Gray * Naming the Unnameable: Defying the Taboo on the Study of Internalized Racism - Karen Pyke * PART IV: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION * Queering Third Cinema: Isaac Julien's Spectral Imaginary - Glen Mimura * Migration and Melancholy: Charles Rezinkoff's Poetic Transformations - Steven Gould Axelrod * Orientalism and Transition in India in the Era of Globalization - Anjan Chakrabarti, Steve Cullenberg & Anup Dhar * The Violent End of America: Revolution and the Western in the 1960s - Katherine Kinney. |