Shooting the Family : : Transnational Media and Intercultural Values /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; Illustrated
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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

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