New PDF release: We Europeans: Media, Representations, Identities (Changing

This quantity explores the connection among media and identification alongside the fault-lines and fissures of the ever-shifting collectivities that represent Europe. on the centre of this dynamic are people, who, as makers and clients of media, negotiate identities, affiliations and meanings. the gathering explores how ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations and languages overlap each other, have interaction inside participants and outline groups. no matter if brought on by way of person wants or shared fantasies, those dynamic collectivities utilize media in very other ways. Addressing subject matters reminiscent of movies and tv programmes, the Euro, photos, postcards or public monuments, participants give some thought to this suggestion of ‘new collectivities’, now not in an individualistic experience or jointly as countries yet as a number of and transferring identities. With this as a place to begin, the quantity interrogates the procedures that create and form id and represent Europe because it bodily expands and administratively consolidates. Essays discover media texts as websites of goals and longed for identities, and articulate the fears and tensions surrounding the makes use of of transnational media, no matter if for reasons of cultural homogenization or isolation. Drawing on novels, movies and the click, the amount demonstrates the tricky interactions of heritage and reminiscence as they tell and provides form to the current. We Europeans? Media, illustration, Identities addresses a scholarly readership with an curiosity in textual research and coverage concerns relating to media, identification and the numerous vantage issues of Europe.