Cultural Encounters

Representing Otherness
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-20280-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication

Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hallam, Elizabeth

Street, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam? 2. The Hottentot Venus and the Western Man: Reflections on the Construction of Beauty in the West 3. Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some Post-colonial Film and Literature 4. Sandra Kogut's 'What do you think people think Brazil is?' Rephrasing Identity 5. Imagi-nation: the Media, Nation and Politics in Contemporary India 6. Projecting Africa. Two British Travel Films of the 1920s 7. Museum Ethnography: an Imperial Science 8. Reflections on the Fate of Tipoo's Tiger: Defining Cultures through Public Display 9. Toward and Erotics of the Museum 10. History, Otherness and Display 11. Texts, Objects and Otherness. Problems of Historical Process in Writing and Displaying Cultures

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Hallam is Director of Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. Brian Street is Professor in the School of Education at King's College, London