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[ecrea] New Book: The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television

Mon Aug 31 14:49:11 GMT 2009




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



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Cambridge Scholars Publishing



ISBN13: 978-1-4438-0614-5

ISBN: 1-4438-0614-5



Price UK GBP: 44.99

Price US USD: 67.99



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