Crisis' Representations : Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.173 .
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series .
Intro -- Crisis' Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Storytelling -- 2 The Value Image of Europe through Images -- 3 Social Media and the Institutionalization of Hate Speech in Greek Politics -- 4 Transnational Soap Operas and Cultural Identity in Times of Change -- 5 Narrative Structures and the Export of Meaning: the Case of South Korean Popular Culture's Reception in Central and Eastern Europe -- 6 What Can Be Seen by Breaking "Bad"? -- 7 The Representation of the Current Crisis in the Greek Cinema: investigating Mnemonic Itineraries and Flashbacks -- 8 Film Narratives on the Current Economic Crisis: the Case of the French Film "the Law of the Markets -- 9 Representations of the Crisis within Five Greek Films -- 10 Developing Educational Discourse on Refugees: from the "Others" to Cinema Meta-language on Refugee Citizens -- Index.
A sociological research on the current "narrations" of the crisis reflected by media and the relation between political discourses and popular myths, consists a revealing study of the dominant social representations worldwide. The real inequalities are counterbalanced by cultural industries' "fairytales".