Shooting the Family : : Transnational Media and Intercultural Values / / ed. by Patricia Pisters, Wim Staat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baronian, Marie-Aude,; Bruin, Joost de,; Copier, Laura,; Dasgupta, Sudeep,; Dijck, José van,; Hermes, Joke,; Kloet, Jeroen de,; Kooijman, Jaap,; Laine, Tarja,; Leeuw, Sonja de,; Lord, Catherine M.,; Pisters, Patricia,; Staat, Wim,
• HerausgeberIn: Pisters, Patricia,; Staat, Wim,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; Illustrated

Shooting the Family, a collection of essays on the contemporary media landscape, explores ever-changing representations of family life on a global scale. The contributors argue that new recording technologies allows families an unusual kind of freedom-until now unknown-to define and respond to their own lives and memories. Recently released videos made by young émigrés as they discover new homelands and resolve conflicts with their parents, for example, reverberate alongside the dark portrayals of family life in the formal filmmaking of Ang Lee. This book will be a boon to scholars of film theory and media studies, as well as to anyone interested in the construction of the family in a postmodern world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Family and the Media -- 1. Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- 2. Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations -- 3. The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series -- Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families -- 4. Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom -- 5. Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic -- 6. Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? -- Part 3: Translating Family Values -- 7. Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of "Chinese" Family Ideology -- 8. Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell -- 9. Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing -- Part 4: Loving Families -- 10. Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values -- 11. Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits -- 12. Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire -- List of Contributors -- Index