Intersectional film analysis in foreign-language  culture classes, showcasing images of migrants  in selected culture-clash comedies Cover Image

Intersektionelle Filmanalyse in der fremdsprachigen Kulturdidaktik am Beispiel des MigrantInnenbildes in ausgewählten Culture-Clash-Komödien
Intersectional film analysis in foreign-language culture classes, showcasing images of migrants in selected culture-clash comedies

Author(s): Tomasz Lis, Marta Janachowska-Budych
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: culture didactics; transcultural learning; intersectional film analysis; interculturality; transculturality; hyperculturality; migration; image of a migrant;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the following paper is to discuss the image of migrants presented inselected culture-clash comedies, and its didactical contribution to transcultural learning. The intersectional analysis of three film sequences conducted in the framework of university classes (seminars and workshops) on intercultural communication is described as a starting point for discussion and reflection upon the stereotyped, and popularised images of migrants as people with specific qualities and skills, certain social backgrounds, and typical patterns of behaviour. The critical analysis of such images supports transcultural learning, which is understood, among others, as bringing aspects of the development of individual as well as collective identities into question, and acknowledging heterogeneity and diversity as cultural and social enrichment.

  • Issue Year: 46/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-53
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: German
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