[...]... subdividing transnational media into two parts, together harboring the first six chapters of the book In Part 1: The Family and the Media, three chapters will address the media specificity of our understanding of the family In Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families, the remarkable paradox of increased globalization shaped and accommodated by transnational media is the focus of the next three chapters They... Homelands In the classic genres of the melodrama and soap opera, “home” is a very important concept in relation to the family The homeland is almost never an issue The home as “household” is automatically in the homeland However, with increased migration, home is no longer automatically connected to the homeland, and the family is often torn between the place where the family members live (home) and the. .. that the work of French filmmaker Ozon is obsessed with literal shootings of the bourgeois family and the staging of alternative family portraits After the death of the hegemonic white bourgeois family, however, there is an afterlife for the family In Sitcom, the father is quite literally killed, but the Spanish maid, her African husband, and the gay son are now, quite literally once more, in the picture... Confucian family ideology: harmony, hierarchy, patriarchy, and piety towards the parents With each film, Lee translates these values differently, thereby betraying the original values and turning them impure With the last film, Hulk, Lee really stirs the concept of the family, of any family, which is an ambiguous experience, a mixture of pleasure and pain However, the question of whether life beyond the family. .. crisis Indeed, the early twenty-first-century changes in the significance of family life, expressed by the ambiguity of mediated shootings of the family, are prefigured by early nineteenth-century ambiguities in the signification of the “natural” family But before we go into detail on the ambiguities of the family as a resource of intercultural values, let us first consider the changes in the family household... multicultural media setting, both the “home mode” of particular and public media use and the public media themselves are related to transnational imaginations of the family Although these chapters each focus on a very different aspect of contemporary media use, they should be read as a dialogue In Chapter 2, Sonja de Leeuw describes the particular uses of media by children of refugees and migrants in the Netherlands... basically refers to the emotional ties and tears (the heart), related to the domain of the home and the family, that are connoted as feminine Theoretically, the family in film and television studies has often been related to the Freudian notion of the Oedipal family. 5 Numerous important studies have emphasized the Oedipal plot of all classical films, and as such the psychoanalytical family can be considered... picture They have “queered” the nuclear family by outing the hidden (and forbidden) desires that have always been part of the private and intimate sphere of the family but now are out in the open and have become public The queering of the family demonstrates that the private family has always been a public affair, a façade and a way of presenting oneself to the outside world Moreover, by expressing these... for intercultural values in the twenty-first century, they may very well oppose the determination of family values by the private household, just like the natural family of the early nineteenth-century articulated itself in opposition to the procedural security of the state In this sense, the intercultural values of migrant families are as particular and contrary to universalist values as natural family. .. Notably, the bourgeois family presented in Les Terres Froides is not at all the perfect bourgeois family that stands for the French nation-to-be-resisted Family values are established by the beur son and the French father, both coded by an intercultural and interracial dialectic between desire and disgust While in Les Terres Froides the beur son makes visible the intercultural contradictions within the . between media theory and practice that discusses intercultural values related to family matters. 1 The Family, Interculturality, and the Media In contrast to media studies, in sociology, the family. book, The Family and the Media, explores the ways in which the family is connected to different types of media representations and media uses. In Chapter 1, “Capturing the Family: Home Video in the. investi- gate the transfigured role of the family both as the mediator and as the mediated in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television,