Migratory aesthetics as a political strategy in the field of cultural production: Transnationalism, hybridity and interculturalism in The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2000)
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mobility transnational cinema migratory aesthetics hybridity metaphor
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Τhis article investigates the conditions of possibility for the articulation of a politically radical aesthetics in the present context, which is defined by the intensification of global interconnectivity. Focusing on the cinematic field, and through the lens of «intercultural cinema» and «independent transnational genre», it provides an analytic exposition of the film The Slow Business of Going by Athina Rachel Tsangari (2000) which, as argued, promotes «migratory aesthetics», mobilising hybridity and transculturalism to radical political ends.
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Petsa, V. (2019). Migratory aesthetics as a political strategy in the field of cultural production: Transnationalism, hybridity and interculturalism in The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2000). The Greek Review of Social Research, 152, 45–78. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.21370
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