Engaging with reality : documentary and globalization / Id Bondebjerg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bondebjerg, Id.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary mass media--United States.

Documentary mass media.

Documentary mass media--Great Britain.

Documentary mass media--Scandinavia.

Globalization--United States.

Globalization.

Globalization--Great Britain.

Globalization--Scandinavia.

Scandinavia.

Great Britain.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, U.K. : Intellect, 2014.

Summary:

As our world becomes more globalized, documentary film and television tell increasingly cosmopolitan stories of the world's social, political, and cultural situation. Ib Bendebjerg examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia after 2001. The documentaries discussed deal with the War on Terror, the globalization of politics, migration, the multicultural challenge, and climate change. This book is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture. It also deals with theories of documentary genres and their social and cultural functions. Engaging with Reality contributes to a new and broader understanding of our changing, contemporary media culture and offers a comparative, transnational analysis of the forms and functions of documentary in a new global and digital media culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Globalization, documentary film and television 15

Chapter 1 Globalization in a mediated world 17

Chapter 2 Sociology and aesthetics of documentary genres 37

Chapter 3 Engaging with and investigating reality: the social and political documentary 59

Part II War, terror and democracy: the post-9/11 documentary 77

Chapter 4 Into the dark side: the politics of war 79

Chapter 5 On the battleground: reporting and representing war 107

Chapter 6 Behind the headlines: documentaries, war, terror and everyday life 129

Part III A new global order: political, social and cultural challenges 155

Chapter 7 Politics and spin in a mediated world 157

Chapter 8 A multicultural world: migration, culture and everyday life 197

Chapter 9 Risk society: the environmental challenge 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783201891

1783201894

OCLC:

859584102