Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2005), 224 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 1-4175-8341-X; 90-5356-750-X; 978-90-485-0540-1
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat, 7
PART 1: THE FAMILY AND THE MEDIA
1 Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction / José van Dijck, 25
2 Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations / Sonja de Leeuw, 41
3 The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series / Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin, 57
PART 2: PRIVATE MATTERS, PUBLIC FAMILIES
4 Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom / Jaap Kooijman, 73
5 Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic / Laura Copier, 89
6 Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? / Tarja Laine, 103
PART 3: TRANSLATING FAMILY VALUES
7 Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of "Chinese" Family Ideology / Jeroen de Kloet, 117
8 Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell / Catherine M. Lord, 133
9 Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing / Marie-Aude Baronian, 147
PART 4: LOVING FAMILIES
10 Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values / Sudeep Dasgupta, 165
11 Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits / Wim Staat, 181
12 Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire / Patricia Pisters, 197
PART 1: THE FAMILY AND THE MEDIA
1 Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction / José van Dijck, 25
2 Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations / Sonja de Leeuw, 41
3 The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series / Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin, 57
PART 2: PRIVATE MATTERS, PUBLIC FAMILIES
4 Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom / Jaap Kooijman, 73
5 Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic / Laura Copier, 89
6 Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? / Tarja Laine, 103
PART 3: TRANSLATING FAMILY VALUES
7 Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of "Chinese" Family Ideology / Jeroen de Kloet, 117
8 Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell / Catherine M. Lord, 133
9 Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing / Marie-Aude Baronian, 147
PART 4: LOVING FAMILIES
10 Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values / Sudeep Dasgupta, 165
11 Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits / Wim Staat, 181
12 Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire / Patricia Pisters, 197
