Screening Protest: Visual narratives of dissent across time, space and genre - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113804217X ISBN 13: 9781138042179

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives on the study of protest mediations on television and in film. Arguing that the screen is a fruitful, if overlooked, analytical focus, the book explores how visual narratives of protest wander across borders – territorial, temporal and generic.

Chapters compare coverage of major protests in recent history by global news channels like Al Jazeera English, BBC World, CNN International and RT. They consider how geopolitical agendas, newsroom culture and the ubiquity of eyewitness footage shape the narration of events such as the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ in Hong Kong, anti-austerity protests in Greece, pro-EU mobilizations in the Ukraine and clashes in Ferguson. A focus on narrative allows authors to compare such news stories with popular cultural depictions of the protester, in films and television series such as The Hunger Games, Robin Hood and Suffragette. Although focussed on the screen, the scope of the book is broad, given its exploration of images distributed worldwide.

Written with both scholars and students in mind, Screening Protest will interest researchers in political science, sociology, media and film studies, as well as the general reader interested in current affairs.

About this title

About the Author

Alexa Robertson is Professor of Media and Communication at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Media and Politics in a Globalized World (2015), Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (2015), and Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113804217X
• ISBN 13: 9781138042179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Robertson Alexa