We Europeans?

This volume, part of the "Changing Media, Changing Europe" series, explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault-lines and fissures of the ever-shifting the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations, and languages that make up contemporary Europe. Addressing topics such as film, television, public monuments, and the press, an international group of contributors reveal how European identity is shaped as the continent administratively consolidates. In essays that explore cultural homogenization, longed-for identities, and the fears surrounding transnational media, this volume uncovers the intricate interactions of history and memory as they inform the European present. "We Europeans? Media, Representation, Identities" addresses a scholarly readership with an interest in textual analysis and policy issues regarding media, identity and the many vantage points of Europe.It offers a unique exploration into the relationship between media and identity in a European context. It employs vivid examples taken from a wide variety of film, literature and mass media. It provides timely discussion of media representations in a rapidly changing Europe.

ISBN 1841502073   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781841502076 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 340 Publisher Intellect Books   Published in Bristol Imprint Intellect Books   Series ISSN 06 Format Paperback   Series title Ib-Changing Media, Changing Europe Publication date 01 Nov 2008   Height (mm) 230 Library of Congress P92   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 302.23094   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate Pages 192

		We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities by William Uricchio
		Imaginary Americas in Europe's Public Space by Rob Kroes
		Towns in Search of Identity by Roger Odin
		Getting Away and Going Home: The Visual Experience of the Exile as Tourist by Karin Becker
		Exiles and Ethnographers: An Essay by Philip Schlesinger
		Imperialism, Self-inflicted? On the Americanizations of Television in Europe by Jerome Bourdon
		Media and Cultural Diversity in Europe by Kevin Robins
		Meanings of Money: The Euro as a Sign of Value and of Cultural Identity by Johan Fornas
		Notion, Boundaries and Otherness in European 'Films of Voyage' by Maria Rovisca
		The Media and the Symbolic Geographies of Europe: The Case of Yugoslavia by Sabino Mihelj
		Sicilian Film Productions: Between Europe and the Mediterranean Islands by Giuliano Muscio

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