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By Patricia Pisters,Wim Staat

ISBN-10: 905356750X

ISBN-13: 9789053567500

Do modern hobbies of migration and the ever-increasing abundance of audiovisual media correspond to - or perhaps reason - shifts within the defenition of either the bourgeois extended family and the tribal ? In Shooting the Family, twelve authors examine the transfigured function of the relations in a transnational global within which intercultural values are negotiated via mass media like movie and tv, in addition to via particularistic media like domestic video clips and videos.
"Shooting the relations" has a double which means. at the one hand, this ebook claims that the relatives is stressed from the forces of globalization and migration; it's the relatives that dangers being shot to items. nevertheless, relatives issues of all types, together with relatives values, are more and more being developed and refigured in a mediated shape. The audiovisual relatives has turn into an incredible medium for intercultural affairs - this can be a relations that's being re-established as a spot of safety and luxury in instances of upheaval; it's the kinfolk shot via cameras that check in and at the same time create new kin values.

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