Shooting the family : : transnational media and intercultural values / / edited by Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat.

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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, c2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Pisters, Patricia / Staat, Wim
  • Part 1: The Family and the Media
  • 1. Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction / Dijck, José van
  • 2. Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations / Leeuw, Sonja de
  • 3. The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series / Hermes, Joke / Bruin, Joost de
  • Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families
  • 4. Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom / Kooijman, Jaap
  • 5. Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic / Copier, Laura
  • 6. Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? / Laine, Tarja
  • Part 3: Translating Family Values
  • 7. Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of "Chinese" Family Ideology / Kloet, Jeroen de
  • 8. Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell / Lord, Catherine M.
  • 9. Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing / Baronian, Marie-Aude
  • Part 4: Loving Families
  • 10. Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values / Dasgupta, Sudeep
  • 11. Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits / Staat, Wim
  • 12. Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire / Pisters, Patricia
  • List of Contributors
  • Index