The Nation on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation on Screen write by Enric Castelló. This book was released on 2020-07-24. The Nation on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “But we can still rise now”, runs a line of Scotland’s unofficial national anthem Flower of Scotland, “and be the nation again” who defeated the English King Edward II in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn. These short lines tell us much about the concept of the nation. Firstly, the pronoun of the nation is “we”. Secondly, nationhood remains aspirational for some, while it is entirely taken-for-granted for others. Thirdly, nations often trace their origins back to an implausibly dim and distant past. Finally, it points to the fundamentally discursive nature of the nation: the nation appears not as something which simply is, but as something which can be, called into existence through talk, official documents, official and unofficial national anthems, ceremonies and parades, monuments and statuary, press coverage and, increasingly, television. This book, which arose out of a conference held in Tarragona in 2007, focuses on the complex discourses of the nation to be found in the television systems of twelve different countries, examining how these circulate in fiction, in news and documentary (including re-enactment formats), and in entertainment programmes, adverts and the coverage of large-scale sporting events. The nation which emerges is everywhere and nowhere, talked about endlessly but never finally grasped, repeatedly staged and re-enacted but lacking a foundational script. In short, it is a site of struggle. The stakes are high, since the nation when mobilised is a force to be reckoned with, and the on-going attempts to define it are many, varied and often highly creative. This book details many such events, from the high drama of war reporting to the self-mocking irony of ten-second commercial spots.
Split Screen Nation
Split Screen Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Split Screen Nation write by Susan Courtney. This book was released on 2017. Split Screen Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S.
Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century
Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century write by Caroline Lusin. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.
Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History
Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History write by Stewart Anderson. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative collection investigates the ways in which television programs around the world have highlighted modernization and encouraged nation-building. It is an attempt to catalogue and better understand the contours of this phenomenon, which took place as television developed and expanded in different parts of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s. From popular science and adult education shows to news magazines and television plays, few themes so thoroughly penetrated the small screen for so many years as modernization, with television producers and state authorities using television programs to bolster modernization efforts. Contributors analyze the hallmarks of these media efforts: nation-building, consumerism and consumer culture, the education and integration of citizens, and the glorification of the nation’s technological achievements.
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television write by Stephen Hutchings. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.
