Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art Performing Migration [Hardcover]

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.

List of Figures Introduction: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art, Rocio G. Davis, Dorothea Fisher-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux Part I. Border Crossings and (Trans)nationalism in Film1: Paradigms of Attitudes Towards Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century, Juan Bruce-Novoa 2: No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films, Page Laws 3: Bodies and Hybrid Tropes: Border Crossings in Recent Films, Cathy Covell Waegner 4: From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figurel£.