Screening and Depicting Cultural Diversity in the English-speaking World and Beyond

Cultural diversity has long been and remains a complex issue for its depiction and appreciation vary according to the historical, geographical or ethical context in which it is considered or the viewpoint from which it is observed. The articles published in this volume, written by European-based specialists in their own particular fields, draw on examples taken from the five continents to explore how diversity is questioned and negotiated both within and beyond the parameters of colonial or post-colonial experience. They thus offer substantial food for thought, by discussing the real or imagined other in different locations, at different periods, through different modes of expression (moving images on the small or large screen, photographs and drawings, alone or in association with the printed word), or by suggesting the discordant richness offered by simultaneous presence of conflicting narratives.

Contents: Rüdiger Ahrens: Identity and Alterity in Post-colonial Film Versions: A Passage to India and Apocalypse Now - Guillermo Iglesias Díaz: Slumdog Millionaire: (Hyper)modern Tales of India's Glocalized Economy - Barbara Antonucci: «Lost in Transition»: Indianness and Diasporic Humour in Audio-visual Productions - Judith Kohlenberger: Tupi or not Tupi: Diversity, Conformity, and the Cultural Work of Cannibalism in How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman - Sue Ryan-Fazilleau (+): Hybridity and Cultural Diversity: Changing Perceptions of Aboriginality (1972-2009) - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: Black Like Me: Tropes of Racial Transformation in Contemporary Cinema - Kimberly Frohreich Gaydon: On District 9 - the Alien as Racial Other - Samuele Grassi: From Printed Page to Picture: Progression and Regression in Neil Jordan's Screenwriting - Ewa Macura: London's Narratives of Diversity: Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things - Renée Dickason: Revisiting Britain: Facets of Cultural Diversity and Difference in British Fictional Television Series - Amandine Ducray: Post-multiculturalism on British Television: A Portrait of a People in the Blair Years - Georges Fournier: The Fictional Treatment of Diversity and Ethnic Issues on British Television since 9/11 - Gilles Teulié: Cultural Diversity and National Identity in Anglo-Boer War Propaganda Images - Pavlina Ferfeli: «America Heroica, Lord Israel and Latin Borghese»: Mina Loy's Body as Intercultural Arrow.