Europe un-imagined : nation and culture at a French-German television channel / Damien Stankiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stankiewicz, Damien, 1980- author.

Series:

Anthropological horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Association relative à la télévision européenne.

Mass media policy--Europe.

Mass media policy.

Mass media and culture--Europe.

Mass media and culture.

Television programs--Social aspects--Europe.

Television programs.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Television programs--Social aspects.

Europe.

France--Relations--Germany.

France.

Relations.

Germany.

Germany--Relations--France.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world's first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the "European culture channel" and was launched in 1991 with a French-German intergovernmental mandate to produce television and other media that promoted pan-European community and culture. Damien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel. He argues that the reproduction of nationalism often goes unacknowledged and unremarked upon, and questions whether something like a European "imagination" can be produced. Stankiewicz describes the challenges that ARTE staff face, including rapidly changing media technologies and audiences, unreflective national stereotyping, and unwieldy bureaucratic infrastructure, which ultimately limit the channel's abilities to cultivate a transnational, "European" public. Europe Un-Imagined challenges its readers to find new ways of thinking about how people belong in the world beyond the problematic logics of national categorization."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Bienvenue à ARTE / wilkommen bei ARTE 35

2 Producing trans/national media 59

3 Trans/national belonging 103

4 Re-presenting history on and at ARTE 141

5 Culture, "culture," Culture 167

6 Trans/national audiences 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-253) and index.

ISBN:

9781442637160

1442637161

9781442628793

1442628790

OCLC:

980821245