Studien ämnar analysera hur filmen Caramel bryter stereotyper genom de fem huvudkaraktärerna och hur regissören Nadine Labaki använder medieaktivism för att förändra bilden av arabiska kvinnor på film. Detta har genomförts genom en kvalitativ semiotisk analys där begreppen denotation och konnotation applicerats som metod. Mitt teoretiska ramverk har utgjorts av begreppen representation, koder, symboler, stereotyper, feministisk filmteori och medieaktivism. Fem utvalda karaktärer har analyserats baserat på deras representation i filmen. Resultatet av studien visar att Caramel har brutit några stereotyper av arabiska kvinnor i filmen och att Nadine Labaki använt feminism och aktivism för att ändra representationen av arabiska kvinnor i film. / The study intends to analyze how the film Caramel breaks stereotypes through the five main characters and how director Nadine Labaki uses media activism to change the image of Arab women in film. This has been carried out through a qualitative semiotic analysis where the concepts of denotation and connotation have been applied as a method. My theoretical framework has been made up of the concepts of representation, codes, symbols, stereotypes, Feminist film theory and media activism. Five selected characters have been analyzed based on their representation in the film. The result of the study shows that Caramel has broken some stereotypes of Arab women in the film and that Nadine Labaki used feminism and activism to change the representation of Arab women in film.

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Sebbene la presenza dei figli degli migranti stia assumendo sempre maggior rilievo anche in Italia la ricerca ha posto poca attenzione alle loro scelte di consumo mediale e all’appropriazione dei media come risorse sociali ed ambientali. La tesi si focalizza sul caso delle giovani donne di origine araba per indagare il ruolo giocato dal consumo di notizie nella cornice più complessa dei processi di negoziazione di identità. Un focus è riservato alle tre dimensioni di appartenenze, partecipazione e trasmissione culturale tra generazioni – in relazione alle madri e ai coetanei. Un’indagine, a livello più “macro”, indaga le possibili implicazioni per il dialogo interculturale. Attraverso la raccolta di quarantotto storie di vita un primo livello di analisi diacronico indaga presenza e intensità del consumo di news nelle fasi della vita per comprendere se possa rappresentare un rito di passaggio all’età adulta, mentre una seconda pista cerca di comprendere come esso si leghi alla questione del sentirsi “cittadini”, in termini di riconoscimento, appartenenza e per scoprire se il consumo di news possa diventare una risorsa per essere soggetti attivi nella sfera pubblica. Tutte le giovani donne di origine araba vivono a Milano, hanno tra i diciotto e i trentadue anni e differiscono per le variabili di 1) nascita o arrivo in Italia dopo i 6 anni; 2) attivismo e 3) religiosità (musulmane, copte ortodosse, atee). / Although the presence of migrants’ sons and daughters is gaining more and more importance also in Italy, the research have not given special attention to their choices concerning media consumption and to the appropriation of the media as social and environmental resources. This thesis is focused on the case of young women of Arab origin in order to investigate the intersections between news consumption and the negotiation of the social identity. A first focus is on three dimensions: participation, belonging and cultural transmission – in comparison with mothers and peers. A second “macro” level of the research investigates the implications as regard to intercultural dialogue. Through the collection of forty-eight life histories, a first level of diachronic analysis investigates the presence and the intensity of news consumption in different stages in order to understand if it could be a rite of passage to the adulthood, while a second track tries to understand how this is connected to the feeling of being “citizens”, in terms of identification, belonging and to investigate if news consumption may be a resource to be active citizens in the public sphere. All young women of Arab origin live in Milan, they are between eighteen and thirty-two years old, and differ in variables 1) they were born or arrived in Italy since they were 6 years old, 2) activism and 3) religion (Muslims, Coptic Orthodox or atheists).

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