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Engaging with Reality

Documentary and Globalization
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Engaging with Reality explores how documentary film and television reflect globalised social, political, and cultural issues. Focusing on works from the US, UK, and Scandinavia since 2001, it examines topics such as the war on terror, political globalisation, migration, multiculturalism, and climate change. The book situates these documentaries within theories of globalisation and documentary genres, highlighting their social and cultural roles in a new digital and global media landscape.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in documentary film, global media culture, and contemporary social issues. It serves as essential reading for students, academics, and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of transnational media and cosmopolitan perspectives.

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As our world becomes more globalized, documentary film and television tell more cosmopolitan stories of the world's social, political, and cultural situation. The author examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia after 2001.

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As our world becomes more globalised, documentary film and television tell more cosmopolitan stories of the world's social, political, and cultural situation. Ib Bondebjerg examines how global challenges are reflected and represented in documentaries from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia after 2001.

The documentaries deal with the war on terror, the globalisation of politics, migration, the multicultural challenge, and climate change. Engaging with Reality is framed by theories of globalisation 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.

It discusses cosmopolitanism and the role and forms of documentary in a new digital and global media culture. It will be essential reading for those looking to better understand documentary and the new transnational approach to modern media culture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783201891

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 March 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Contributors:

  • Edited by Ib Bondebjerg
  • Edited by Ib Bondebjerg

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Ib Bondebjerg is professor in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

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