Comparing the "De-Othering" of Immigrants in American and British Popular Television.
Cullinane, Caroline A.
2013
- The topics of immigration, immigrants, and immigration policy have dominated political and journalistic rhetoric in the United States and United Kingdom in recent decades. The debate has profoundly influenced popular culture in each country, where entertainment media is used to vocalize concerns about a consistent and sustained influx of non-Western immigrants to both countries. Representations of ... read morenon-Western immigrants in American and British television specifically designate the communities and individuals shown as a non-Western other, culturally separate in the context of the programs from American and British society. By subscribing to each country's respective values system for recent immigrants (i.e. the American Dream and its British equivalent), immigrant television characters are able to shed their status as other and become cultural citizens of their respective countries. By focusing on British adaptations of American television and vice versa, this thesis explores the specific cultural differences in the adapted television programs that temper this de-othering process in popular culture and how they reflect the overall differences between the cultural values systems for immigrants in each country.read less
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