The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television
Amidst increasing talk of the ?postnational? and
the waning of the nation-state, detailed
analysis of a broad spectrum of television
genres in a wide range of national contexts
suggests that reports of the nation?s death are
indeed greatly exaggerated. The Nation on
Screen: Discourses of the National on Global
Television 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.
The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television
Edited by Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest and Hugh O?Donnell
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Nation on Screen
Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest and Hugh O?Donnell
Part I Television Fiction Narratives
Religion and History in Contemporary Italian Television Drama
Milly Buonanno
Dramatic Professions: Workplace Drama in Spanish Television
Paul Julian Smith
Stateless Fictions: Rural and Urban
Representations in Scottish and Catalan Soaps
Enric Castelló and Hugh O?Donnell
Quebec?s ?Télévision Fantastique?: Horror and
National Identity in the Television Series Grande Ourse
André Loiselle
Do We Really Use Soaps to Construct Our
Identities? Everyday Nationalism in Television Fiction
Alexander Dhoest
Serial Identity: Television Serials as Resources for Reflexive Identities
Lothar Mikos
Part II News, Current Affairs and Documentary Imaginaries
Television News and the Dynamics of National Remembering
Sabina Mihelj
Locating Britain: Migration and Shifting Boundaries on TV News
Bernhard Gross
When ?Us? Meet ?Them?: Representations and
Reception of Muslim Women in a Flemish Documentary
Hilde Van den Bulck and Deborah Broos
We Witness the World: National and Cosmopolitan
Memoriesin Documentaries about Foreign Nations
Anna Roosvall
Sharing Their Past with the Nation: Re-enactment
and Testimony on British Television
Erin Bell
Re-enacting National Histories: Outback House
and Narratives of Australia?s Colonial Past
Catriona Elder
Part III Entertainment, Commercials and Big Events
Germany, Television and the 2006 World Cup:
National Narratives of Pride and ?Party Patriotism?
Gavin Sullivan
Romancing the Nation: Operación Triunfo (2001-2002)
Francisca López
Trauma and Kitsch: The Presentation of Israel?s
Army Entertainment Troupes on Television
Dan Arav and David Gurevitz
Beyond Franco?s Nationalism: Reading Modernity in the Origins of TVE
Mar Binimelis, Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen
Leave it to Beavers: Animals, Icons and the Marketing of the Bell Beavers
Kim Sawchuk and Barbara Crow
Conclusion: Television Stories and Discourses on the Nation
Hugh O?Donnell, Alexander Dhoest and Enric Castelló
--------------
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-0614-5
ISBN: 1-4438-0614-5
Price UK GBP: 44.99
Price US USD: 67.99
<http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Nation-on-Screen--Discourses-of-the-National-on-Global-Television1-4438-0614-5.htm>http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Nation-on-Screen--Discourses-of-the-National-on-Global-Television1-4438-0614-5.htm
