Cosmopolitan Women Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl

Recent years have witnessed new scholarly interest in concepts and practices of cosmopolitanism across a range of disciplines, even as the term itself remains contested and elusive. As Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen argue, For some contemporary writers on the topic, cosmopolitanism refers to a visi...

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Published inSilent Cinema and the Politics of Space p. 295
Main Author Patrice Petro
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Indiana University Press 02.04.2014
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied arts
Art Deco
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Business
Communications
Communications media
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural anthropology
Cultural industries
Cultural studies
Design
Entertainment industries
Fascism
Fashion design
Film studies
Human societies
Industrial sectors
Industry
Mass communication
Mass media
Motion picture industry
Movies
Nazism
News media
Periodicals
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Popular culture
Print media
Serial publications
Social movements
Social sciences
Sociology
Visual materials
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Summary:Recent years have witnessed new scholarly interest in concepts and practices of cosmopolitanism across a range of disciplines, even as the term itself remains contested and elusive. As Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen argue, For some contemporary writers on the topic, cosmopolitanism refers to a vision of global democracy and world citizenship; for others it points to the possibilities for shaping new transnational frameworks for making links between social movements. Yet others invoke cosmopolitanism to advocate a non-communitarian, post-identity politics of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid publics in order to challenge conventional notions of belonging, identity, and citizenship. And
ISBN:9780253012265
0253012260