Engaging with Reality

Ib Bondebjerg is professor of film and media studies, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, and was the founder and director of the Centre for Modern European Studies (2008-20011). From 2000 to 2009 he was the editor of Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook and he is part of the advisory board of Studies in Documentary Film and Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. His main research area is European film and media culture and documentary genres. He was co-director of the ESF Research project Changing Media - Changing Europe (2000-2005) and is co-director of the HERA project, Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens (MeCETES, 2013-216). His most recent publications are Media, Democracy and European Culture (2008, co-editor and contributor), Narratives of Reality: The History of the Danish Television Documentary (2008, in Danish), Images of Reality: The Modern Danish Film Documentary (2012, in Danish), Engaging with Reality: Documentary and Globalization (2014) and Danish Directors 3: Dialogues on the New Danish Documentary Cinema (co-editor, 2014).

• Introduction: Documentary, contemporary society and media culture PART I: Globalization, documentary film and televisionChapter 1: Globalization in a mediated worldChapter 2: Sociology and aesthetics of documentary genresChapter 3: Engaging with and investigating reality: the social and political documentaryPART II: War, terror and democracy: the post-9/11 documentaryChapter 4: Into the dark side: the politics of warChapter 5: On the battleground: reporting and representing warChapter 6: Behind the headlines: documentaries, war, terror and everyday lifePART III: A new global order: political, social and cultural challengesChapter 7: Politics and spin in a mediated worldChapter 8: A multicultural world: migration, culture and everyday lifeChapter 9: Risk society: the environmental challengeConclusion: Cosmopolitan narratives: documentary in the new digital media culture