Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2005

Shooting the Family

Transnational Media and Intercultural Values

Edited by: Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048505401

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Contents

About this book

This collection of essays explores ever-changing representations of family life on a global scale

Author / Editor information

Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat lecture in film and television studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat Open Access Download PDF	7
Part 1: The Family and the Media
1. Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction José van Dijck Open Access Download PDF	25
2. Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations Sonja de Leeuw Open Access Download PDF	41
3. The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin Open Access Download PDF	57
Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families
4. Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom Jaap Kooijman Open Access Download PDF	73
5. Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic Laura Copier Open Access Download PDF	89
6. Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? Tarja Laine Open Access Download PDF	103
Part 3: Translating Family Values
7. Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee’s Translations of “Chinese” Family Ideology Jeroen de Kloet Open Access Download PDF	117
8. Eurydice’s Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet’s Hell Catherine M. Lord Open Access Download PDF	133
9. Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan’s Family Viewing Marie-Aude Baronian Open Access Download PDF	147
Part 4: Loving Families
10. Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values Sudeep Dasgupta Open Access Download PDF	165
11. Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits Wim Staat Open Access Download PDF	181
12. Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire Patricia Pisters Open Access Download PDF	197
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	213
Index Open Access Download PDF	217

Languages: English, English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: Illustrated

eBook

Published: February 16, 2005
ISBN: 9789048505401