Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Introducing Intercultural Communication
- Part II Theoretical Approaches
- Part III Methods
- 12 Decolonizing Gender and Intercultural Communication in Transnational Contexts
- 13 Migration in the Digital Social Mediasphere
- 14 Linguistic Politeness
- 15 Contemporary Literature and Intercultural Understanding
- 16 Enhancing Intercultural Skills through Storytelling
- 17 Cinema as Intercultural Communication
- 18 Intercultural Memory and Violence in Jewish Literature
- 19 Intercultural Communication in Social Work Practice
- 20 Intercultural Education in Study Abroad Contexts
- 21 Intercultural Communication in the Courtroom
- Part IV Application
- Part V Assessment
- Index
- References
17 - Cinema as Intercultural Communication
from Part III - Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Introducing Intercultural Communication
- Part II Theoretical Approaches
- Part III Methods
- 12 Decolonizing Gender and Intercultural Communication in Transnational Contexts
- 13 Migration in the Digital Social Mediasphere
- 14 Linguistic Politeness
- 15 Contemporary Literature and Intercultural Understanding
- 16 Enhancing Intercultural Skills through Storytelling
- 17 Cinema as Intercultural Communication
- 18 Intercultural Memory and Violence in Jewish Literature
- 19 Intercultural Communication in Social Work Practice
- 20 Intercultural Education in Study Abroad Contexts
- 21 Intercultural Communication in the Courtroom
- Part IV Application
- Part V Assessment
- Index
- References
Summary
Joanne Leal’s chapter investigates how far and how exactly cinema is able to offer a representational counterbalance to conservative notions of national belonging and exclusionary constructions of what social cohesion should mean. It considers these issues mainly within a Western European framework, asking what film can do to promote intercultural sensitivities within contemporary European contexts in which attitudes to the impact of globalization and particularly the transnational movement of people are often ambivalent and sometimes actively hostile. In particular it examines critical assessments of the positive intercultural impact of watching foreign cinema, the possible political effects of films which encourage empathetic responses to transnational tales contained in generically familiar forms and the critical potential of two kinds of film which uses less conventional cinematic means to represent a globalized social world.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication , pp. 286 - 301Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020