JazzDias: Crime-Jazz Diasporas: African American Music in Overseas Cinema

JazzDias从音乐方面追溯了战后美国犯罪电影的跨国影响，考察了它们对英国和欧洲(法国、波兰、意大利)电影院的文化影响--以及这些电影院对好莱坞的影响。该项目探索了城市犯罪类型是如何被同化和重新想象的，因为现代爵士乐具有象征原始冲动的潜力，这些原始冲动被认为是“男性”的暴力和“女性的”性行为。在积累了英国和欧洲电影档案中可用的证据后，ER应将一个跨学科的理论工具应用于这一特定的全球媒体--跨越美国以外的种族偏见的制造。通过一个雄心勃勃的传播计划，JazzDias将提高学术界和大众对犯罪的认识--好莱坞主流产品的全球化发行所产生的爵士乐“侨民”，以及外国艺术电影在美国的“反侨民”。它将为美国和海外观众对这些电影的文化矛盾心理提供更微妙的理解，既有普遍性的，也有特殊性的。

JazzDias traces the transnational influence of postwar American crime films in terms of their musical aspects, examining their cultural impact on British and European (French, Polish, Italian) cinemas-and these cinemas' influence on Hollywood in turn. The project explores how the urban crime genre is assimilated and reimagined in terms of modern jazz's potential to signify primal impulses gendered as "masculine" violence and "feminine" sexuality. After accumulating evidence available in film archives within the UK and Europe, the ER shall apply an interdisciplinary theoretical apparatus to this specific global media-manufacture of racial prejudice spanning well beyond the United States. Through an ambitious programme of dissemination, JazzDias will raise academic and popular awareness of crime-jazz "diasporas" emanating from the globalized distribution of Hollywood mainstream product, as well as "counter diasporas" of foreign art house films in the USA. And it will provide a more nuanced understanding of American and overseas audiences' cultural ambivalence toward these films in ways both universal and idiosyncratic.