- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (23 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 905356750X
- ISBN-13: 978-9053567500
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,948,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Do contemporary movements of migration and the ever-increasing abundance of audiovisual media correspond to - or even cause - shifts in the defenition of both the bourgeois nuclear family and the tribal extended family? In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a double meaning. On the one hand, this book claims that the family is under pressure from the forces of globalization and migration; it is the family that risks being shot to pieces. On the other hand, family matters of all kinds, including family values, are increasingly being constructed and refigured in a mediated form. The audiovisual family has become an important medium for intercultural affairs - this is a family that is being re-established as a place of security and comfort in times of upheaval; it is the family shot by cameras that register and simultaneously create new family values. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053567500. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam.|Wim Staat is Assistent Professor of Film Studies at the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam.
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Family science filmaking
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Format:Paperback
Shooting the family: Transnational media and intercultural values.
Edited by Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat.
As the roles of families shift due to globalization and migration, the authors of
Shooting the Family: Transnational media and intercultural values, try to present some of these changes and the good and the bad from media exposure. A group of twelve media scholars wrote the book that originated in the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam. The authors try to explain some of the shifts in the perceptions of the nuclear and extended family by adding to the complexity of the subject of the influence of media on families using an intercultural perspective. The family is addressed from a humanities viewpoint, focusing on philosophy and esthetics examining identity, ethics, and traditions. The family is viewed using media texts including fiction films, documentaries, photos, television series, and home videos. This is not a study of traditional family relationships pointing out cultural diversity as presented by Bron Ingoldsby and Suzanne Smith from their research. Nor does it try to shatter the myths of family life, as did Stephanie Coontz, in The Way We Never Were. The editors, Pisters and Staat, speak to the issues that the studies of the family in film and television in the past have been Freudian in nature, of the Oedipal family, which was an important paradigm in interpreting the world of cinema.
An excellent source for filmakers interested in family science.
Edited by Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat.
As the roles of families shift due to globalization and migration, the authors of
Shooting the Family: Transnational media and intercultural values, try to present some of these changes and the good and the bad from media exposure. A group of twelve media scholars wrote the book that originated in the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam. The authors try to explain some of the shifts in the perceptions of the nuclear and extended family by adding to the complexity of the subject of the influence of media on families using an intercultural perspective. The family is addressed from a humanities viewpoint, focusing on philosophy and esthetics examining identity, ethics, and traditions. The family is viewed using media texts including fiction films, documentaries, photos, television series, and home videos. This is not a study of traditional family relationships pointing out cultural diversity as presented by Bron Ingoldsby and Suzanne Smith from their research. Nor does it try to shatter the myths of family life, as did Stephanie Coontz, in The Way We Never Were. The editors, Pisters and Staat, speak to the issues that the studies of the family in film and television in the past have been Freudian in nature, of the Oedipal family, which was an important paradigm in interpreting the world of cinema.
An excellent source for filmakers interested in family science.
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