Ib Bondebjerg

This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century— an age of extremes. Bondebjerg offers unique theoretical and analytical insight into the role of television in mediating and shaping the past. The book explores television’s creation of transnational cultural encounters across Europe in relation to our common and national past. The book addresses how television has influenced our understanding of history, collective memory and public debate over the twentieth century. It is fundamentally a book about the importance of the past in present day Europe and the centrality of media for transnational understanding.

Television, History, Memory

Screening Twentieth Century Europe

Peter Madsen

Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international. It brings together researchers from many countries and from humanities, social sciences and law. The articles combine the discussion of central theories and theoretical concepts for the understanding of media, democracy and European culture with empirical data and comparative analytical studies of media culture and democracy across Europe. The book is written by some of the most prominent European Scholars in media, political science, sociology and cultural studies.

Media, Democracy and European Culture

Drama og anden form for fiktion har i mange år været noget af det mest populære på tv-skærme verden over. Ib Bondebjergs bog "Elektroniske fiktioner" fra 1993 fortæller om nogle af tv-mediets vigtigste genrer, nemlig tv-føljetonen – også kendt som tv-serien. Med udgangspunkt i nogle af samtidens mest populære og skelsættende tv-serier – "Matador", "Nye tider", "Europa i flammer", "Holocaust", "Den syngende detektiv", "Heimat" og "Twin Peaks" – fortæller Ib Bondebjerg om de forskellige genrer, hvad der definerer dem, og hvad vi som seere får ud af dem ud fra et æstetisk, psykologisk og historisk perspektiv. Ib Bondebjerg (f. 1947) er professor emeritus ved Københavns Universitets Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling. Han har blandt andet skrevet bøgerne "Medier og samfund" (sammen med Ulla Bondebjerg), "Elektroniske fiktioner" samt en lang række artikler om litteratur, film, tv og radio.

Elektroniske fiktioner - TV som fortællende medie

Eva Novrup Redvall

Rasmus Helles

Signe Sophus Lai

Henrik Søndergaard

Cecilie Astrupgaard

This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audiences and the creative community. It demonstrates that the diversity of national cultures is a challenge for European TV drama but also a potential richness and source of creative variation. Based on data on the production, distribution and reception of recent TV drama from several European countries, the book presents a new picture of the transnational European television culture. The authors analyse main tendencies in television policy and challenges for national broadcasters coming from new global streaming services. Comparing cases of historical, contemporary and crime drama from several countries, this study shows the importance of creative co-production and transnational mediated cultural encounters between national cultures of Europe.

Production, Genres and Audiences

Transnational European Television Drama

Andrew Higson

This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively.

Cultural Policy and Everyday Life

European Cinema and Television

den moderne danske dokumentarfilm

Virkelighedsbilleder

Hjort Mette

In response to the resurgence of Danish film, this book presents a collection of indepth interviews with 19 of Denmark's finest filmmakers. Profiling the canonized figures alongside recentlyestablished filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Søren KraghJacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies, which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike. Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director, biographical information, and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film, national cinema and minority cinema.

Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema

The Danish Directors

Mette Hjort

In response to the resurgence of Danish film, this book presents a collection of in-depth interviews with nineteen of Denmark's finest film-makers. Featuring interviews with Lars Von Trier, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Gabriel Axel among many others.

This book 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. Engaging with Reality contributes to a new and broader understanding of our changing, contemporary media culture and offers a comparative, transnational analysis of the forms and functions of documentary in a new global and digital media culture.

Documentary and Globalization

Engaging with Reality

Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features film-makers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark’s now legendary Department of Documentary and Television. The term ‘new’ also captures tendencies that cut across the work of the film-makers. For example, for the generation in question, internationalization and the development of a new digital media culture are inevitable aspects of everyday life, and, indeed, of the professional environments in which they operate. A comprehensive overview of documentary directors currently working in Denmark, this is the only book of its kind about this growing area of Danish cinema.

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