Shooting the family

Amsterdam University Press

2005

224 p.

9789053567500

Table of Contents - 6[-]Introduction (Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat) - 8[-]Part 1: The Family and the Media - 24[-] 1. Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Jos� van Dijck) - 26[-] 2. Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations (Sonja de Leeuw) - 42[-] 3. The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series (Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin) - 58[-]Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families - 72[-] 4. Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in Fran�ois Ozon's Sitcom (Jaap Kooijman) - 74[-] 5. Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic (Laura Copier) - 90[-] 6. Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? (Tarja Laine) - 104[-]Part 3: Translating Family Values - 116[-] 7. Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of -Chinese� Family Ideology (Jeroen de Kloet) - 118[-] 8. Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell (Catherine M. Lord) - 134[-] 9. Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing (Marie-Aude Baronian) - 148[-]Part 4: Loving Families - 164[-] 10. Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values (Sudeep Dasgupta) - 166[-] 11. Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits (Wim Staat) - 182[-] 12. Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire (Patricia Pisters) - 198[-]List of Contributors - 214[-]Index - 218

"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."

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