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）电影的文化影响，以及这些电影对好莱坞的影响。该项目探讨了城市犯罪类型是如何被吸收和重新想象的，现代爵士乐的潜力，以表示原始冲动的性别为“男性”暴力和“女性”性。在英国和欧洲的电影档案中积累了可用的证据后，研究小组将运用跨学科的理论工具来研究这一特定的全球媒体制造的种族偏见，其范围远远超出了美国。通过一项雄心勃勃的传播计划，JazzDias将提高学术界和大众对来自好莱坞主流产品全球化发行的犯罪-爵士乐“流散”的认识，以及美国外国艺术电影的“反流散”。它将提供一个更细致入微的理解，美国和海外观众对这些电影的文化矛盾心理，无论是普遍的还是特殊的。

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.