Ishani Mukherjee is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Maggie Griffith Williams is lecturer at Northeastern University and visiting scholar at Fordham University.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart I. Migration: Globalization, Cultural Adaptation and Value Orientation Chapter 2. The African Doctor: Migration, Medicine, and Racialization in a French Village Chapter 3. A Better Life: Immigration Industrial Complex, Conflict Styles and Facework in a Mexican-American FamilyPart II. Movements: Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Conflict Chapter 4. Rabbit Proof Fence: Kidnapping, Colonization, and Segregation of Australian Aboriginals Chapter 5. A Borrowed Identity: Religious and Ethnic Relationships in an Israeli High School Part III. Sojourning: Non/Verbal Communication, Cultural Dimensions, and Intercultural BarriersChapter 6. Outsourced: Holi, Kali, and Capitalism in an Indo-American Call CenterChapter 7. Front Cover: Fashion and Fluid Sexualities in an Intra-Asian RelationshipChapter 8. AfterwordReferencesAbout the Authors

Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams have put together a set of analyses that connect film and intercultural communication. Through a careful and close discussion of particular texts portraying contexts of complex intercultural learning and growth, the authors have provided us with a text that can be engaged within academic contexts in the classroom (both undergraduate and graduate) as well as outside of academia. This is a much-needed bridging of cultural studies, mobilities, and migration-based reading of film as applicable to the practical everydayness of the field of intercultural communication. Writing in a manner that is accessible yet theoretically nuanced is not easy - but the authors of this book have achieved the balance.