Cinematic city of cultural coexistence? : Perspectives on intercultural encounters in New York

dc.contributor.authorSommerlad, Elisabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T10:45:30Z
dc.date.available2022-12-16T10:45:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe paper examines how U.S.-American movies stage and convey intercultural encounters. Drawing from the case study of cinematic New York City, it tackles intercultural encounters and spaces emerging from interactions of protagonists that are staged as being ‘culturally different’. Theoretical ideas on urban encounters, interculturality, and boundaries are intertwined. A comparative analysis 17 movies reveals three key dimensions of intercultural spaces: boundary drawing, boundary crossing, and boundary commuting. As polysemous staging strategies these provide insight into how movies display everyday intercultural encounters in an urban context. The paper concludes that New York City is imagined as a place in which intercultural encounters are consciously reflected as cultural coexistence—the cinematic city serves as canvas for a culturally separated society. This finding disenchants the medially widespread urban myth of New York City being a harmonious intercultural metropolis.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipGefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491381577de
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8329
dc.identifier.urihttps://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8345
dc.language.isoengde
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subject.ddc550 Geowissenschaftende_DE
dc.subject.ddc550 Earth sciencesen_GB
dc.titleCinematic city of cultural coexistence? : Perspectives on intercultural encounters in New Yorken_GB
dc.typeZeitschriftenaufsatzde
jgu.journal.titleGeoJournalde
jgu.journal.volume87de
jgu.organisation.departmentFB 09 Chemie, Pharmazie u. Geowissensch.de
jgu.organisation.nameJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
jgu.organisation.number7950
jgu.organisation.placeMainz
jgu.organisation.rorhttps://ror.org/023b0x485
jgu.pages.end103de
jgu.pages.start95de
jgu.publisher.doi10.1007/s10708-022-10657-wde
jgu.publisher.issn1572-9893de
jgu.publisher.nameSpringer Science + Business Media B.V.de
jgu.publisher.placeDordrecht u.a.de
jgu.publisher.year2022
jgu.rights.accessrightsopenAccess
jgu.subject.ddccode550de
jgu.subject.dfgNaturwissenschaftende
jgu.type.dinitypeArticleen_GB
jgu.type.resourceTextde
jgu.type.versionPublished versionde

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