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“Cultural misunderstandings as a potent tool for analysing cultural transfer “

Patricia Caillé (Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, Université de Lorraine)

What this colloquium has shown is the extent to which the notion of “interculturality” despite abundant scholarship being produced across a wide range of disciplines, may be a catchall term with divergent interpretations albeit with a consensus (a general connotation?) that it is somehow desirable and therefore deflects relationships of power at work. Interculturality suggests an expanding phenomenon related to globalisation, as well as something we should aspire to, but which might have been there all the time. The implicit emphasis on transnational circulation may serve to sideline a more complex articulation of different elements, many of them local. Keeping this in mind, what may be more productive is to focus on cultural misunderstandings, glitches, misinterpretations. Opening up the suspended moments of maladjustment, maybe through “small stories” (Georgakopoulou 2007, Calin 2022), in order to examine the ways in which through interactions or practices two cultures may rub up against each other – the friction may be technical, industrial, professional, artistic or more broadly social and cultural – may be a means to capture the nature of the discrepancy and the ways in which people overcome it. The ways in which agents respond to such friction and patch things up (or not) may also provide insights into different ways of conceiving and making films and into relationships of power and domination at work in such contexts. The operation of film sectors often requires that people seek to avoid conflicts, and maintain a very fragile balance in which each agent has to find their own position while contributing with varying degrees of autonomy to a common idea.


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Nolwenn Mingant (20 juin 2022). “Cultural misunderstandings as a potent tool for analysing cultural transfer “ Transcultural Production Studies. Consulté le 14 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/urwy


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