Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values

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Patricia Pisters, Wim Staat
Amsterdam University Press, 2005 - Performing Arts - 224 pages
The 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. Contains: Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction / José van Dijck; Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations / Sonja de Leeuw; The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series / Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin; Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom / Jaap Kooijman; Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic / Laura Copier; Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? / Tarja Laine; Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of 'Chinese' Family Ideology / Jeroen de Kloet; Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell / Catherine M. Lord; Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing / Marie-Aude Baronian; Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values / Sudeep Dasgupta; Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits / Wim Staat; Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire / Patricia Pisters.

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Contents

Introduction
7
The Family and the Media
14
Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lees Translations of Chinese Family
17
Copyright

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Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Previously she has edited Micropolitics of Media Culture. Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari (2001) and Shooting the Family. Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (2005). She is also an editor for Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies.

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