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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816052503321

Autore

Stankiewicz Damien <1980->

Titolo

Europe Un-Imagined : Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel / / Damien Stankiewicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2017

ISBN

1-4426-2480-9

1-4426-2479-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Anthropological Horizons

Disciplina

302.23094

Soggetti

Mass media policy - Europe

Mass media and culture - Europe

Electronic books.

France Relations Germany

Germany Relations France

Europe

France

Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; copyright; contents; figures and tables; acknowledgments; introduction; 1 bienvenue à ARTE / wilkommen bei ARTE; 2 producing trans/national media; 3 trans/national belonging; 4 re-presenting history on and at ARTE; 5 culture, "culture," Culture; 6 trans/national audiences; conclusions and provocations; notes; references; index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world's first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la television europeenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the "European culture channel" and was launched in 1991 with a French-German intergovernmental mandate to produce television and other media that promoted pan-European community and culture. Damien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the



screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel. He argues that the reproduction of nationalism often goes unacknowledged and unremarked upon, and questions whether something like a European "imagination" can be produced. Stankiewicz describes the challenges that ARTE staff face, including rapidly changing media technologies and audiences, unreflective national stereotyping, and unwieldy bureaucratic infrastructure, which ultimately limit the channel's abilities to cultivate a transnational, "European" public. Europe Un-Imagined challenges its readers to find new ways of thinking about how people belong in the world beyond the problematic logics of national categorization."--