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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pisters, Patricia, editor.

Staat, Wim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and families.

Intercultural communication.

Communication, International.

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 migr 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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

9786610959143

9781280959141

1280959142

9789048505401

9048505402

9781417583416

141758341X

OCLC:

607827775