Description
Book SynopsisEurope Un-Imagined examines one of the world’s first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (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,
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"Stankiewicz’s work is provocative, and it should be taught in all courses in media studies and on the anthropology of the media because it will provide fodder for lively discussions about the role of television in crafting shared cultural and national identities." -- Kristen Ghodsee * H-Net Reviews, June 2018 *
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1: Bienvenue a ARTE / Wilkommen bei ARTE Chapter 2: Producing trans/national media Chapter 3: Trans/national belonging Chapter 4: Re-presenting history on and at ARTE Chapter 5: culture, "culture," Culture Chapter 6: Trans/national audiences Conclusions and Provocations
