North/South, East/West

Mapping Italianness on Television

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Av Michela Ardizzoni

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North/South, East/West focuses on the visual and discursive representation of identity promoted by public and private Italian national television at the turn of the twenty-first century. Michela Ardizzoni examines the role of politics, conglomeration, immigration, and satellite technology in framing discourses of gender, ethnic, and regional identities. In a time of social and political change for Italy, characterized by the increased visibility of ethnic minorities and the rise to political power of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's largest media mogul,North/South, East/West provides an in-depth textual analysis of current programs and their vision of identity.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-12-06
Mått160 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739115756

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Articulating Identity, Globalization, and Italian TelevisionChapter 2. The Italian Television Industry: Politics, Commercialism, and New FrontiersChapter 3. Watching Italy Between the Regional and the GlobalChapter 4. Through the Ethnic Lens: National Identity on TelevisionChapter 5. Engendering the Nation: Women and Identity on National TelevisionChapter 6. The Cultural Politics of Italian Television: Some Conclusions

Ardizzoni has given us a theoretically sophisticated and extraordinarily well-researched study of contemporary Italian television that seeks to understand the meaning of national identity in Europe in the face of the cultural transformations wrought by immigration and globalization. From its close analysis of the broadcast industry to its comprehension of the intricacies of Italian culture, this book's insights should earn it a significant place in scholarly and public debates about the status of the nation and its peoples in an era of media globalization.