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PublisherIntellect, The Limited

ISBN-101783201894

ISBN-139781783201891

eBay Product ID (ePID)172340558

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameEngaging with Reality : Documentary and Globalization

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

SubjectMedia Studies, Sociology / General, Globalization

TypeTextbook

AuthorIb Bondebjerg

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-513404

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal070.1

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction: Documentary, contemporary society and media culture Part 1: Globalization, documentary film and television 1. Globalization in a mediated world 2. Sociology and aesthetics of documentary genre 3. Engaging with and investigating reality: the social and political documentary Part 2: War, terror and democracy: the post-9/11 documentary 4. Into the dark side: the politics of war 5. On the battleground: reporting and representing war 6. Behind the headlines: documentaries, war, terror and everyday life Part 3: A new global order: political, social and cultural challenges 7. Politics and spin in a mediated world 8. A multicultural world: migration, culture and everyday life 9. Risk society: the environmental challenge Conclusion: Cosmopolitan narratives: documentary in the new digital media culture References Index of names and titles

SynopsisAs our world becomes more globalized, documentary film and television tell more cosmopolitan stories of the world s social, political, and cultural situation. Ib Bondebjerg examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia after 2001. The documentaries deal with the war on terror, the globalization of politics, migration, the multicultural challenge, and climate change. "Engaging with Reality"is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture. It also deals with theories of documentary genres and their social and cultural functions. It discusses cosmopolitanism and the role and forms of documentary in a new digital and global media culture. It will be essential reading for those looking to better understand documentary and the new transnational approach to modern media culture.", As our world becomes more globalized, documentary film and television tell more cosmopolitan stories of the world's social, political, and cultural situation. Ib Bondebjerg examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia after 2001. The documentaries deal with the war on terror, the globalization of politics, migration, the multicultural challenge, and climate change. Engaging with Reality is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture. It also deals with theories of documentary genres and their social and cultural functions. It discusses cosmopolitanism and the role and forms of documentary in a new digital and global media culture. It will be essential reading for those looking to better understand documentary and the new transnational approach to modern media culture., As our world becomes more globalized, documentary film and television tell more cosmopolitan stories of the world's social, political and cultural situation. Ib Bondebjerg examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia after 2001. The documentaries deal with the war on terror, the globalization of politics, migration, the multicultural challenge and climate change. Engaging with Reality is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture. It also deals with theories of documentary genres and their social and cultural functions. It discusses cosmopolitanism and the role and forms of documentary in a new digital and global media culture. It will be essential reading for those looking to better understand documentary and the new transnational approach to modern media culture., Documentaries play and important role in the more and more global media culture that has been under development for the last decades. Documentaries come in many forms and genres, but they all claim a special relation with reality, and they want to engage us in different ways with reality. As our reality, in politics, in culture and in many other aspects of our everyday life, gets more and more influenced by globalization, documentary film and television begin to tell stories from this global reality, they start confronting us with the challenges raised by globalization. This book deals with some of the themes behind those global challenges as they are reflected and represented in documentaries from USA, UK and Scandinavia. There is a strong focus on the period after 2001, and only a few, but central global themes are taken up and dealt with through the lenses of documentary films: the war on terror, the globalization of politics and news reporting, migration and the multicultural challenge and the climate challenge.

LC Classification NumberP96.D62