Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Part I: Border Crossings and (Trans)nationalism in Film; 1 Paradigms of Attitudes Toward Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century; 2 No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films; 3 Bodies and Hybrid Tropes Border Crossings in Recent Films; 4 From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figure of the Guest Worker in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand; 5 "Lunch with the Bigot": 9/11 in Bollywood's Filmic Imagination
Part II: Migrant Adaptations in Television6 Invisible Ethnicity: Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness; 7 Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media; 8 The Trans/migrant in the Spotlight: Space and Movement in Brazilian Telenovelas; Part III: Traveling Sounds: Music and Migration; 9 Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar1; 10 Variations on a
Summary
Features the essays that focus on the connection between issues of migration and media. This title addresses how their interconnection has become part of our understanding of the world's global cities, and the paradigms through which we think about ethnicity and nation
