Erin Burnett in Mali: Bardic Television and the Genealogy of Cultural Narratology
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Guido Isekenmeier
Abstract
This article traces back some of the concerns of a cultural narratology (namely, its emphasis on the narrative construction of world models and cultural communities) to earlier engagements with the ideological dimensions of mass-mediated narratives in cultural studies. Drawing on Fiske and Hartley’s theory of ‘bardic television’, it highlights the complexities of context for news narratives and the persistence of cultural configurations supporting them, in an attempt to come to terms with the transformation of news culture in the wake of new digital media formats framing current events. In an analysis of a 2013 CNN piece on the situation in Mali, it demonstrates the continued deployment of bardic television’s strategies in recent television news reporting, which indicates an adherence to journalistic standards made obsolete by internet, media. This, in turn, seems to explain some of the problems of traditional news media in adapting to the changes in political discourse over the last decades (most pervasively in the Trump era).
Abstract
This article traces back some of the concerns of a cultural narratology (namely, its emphasis on the narrative construction of world models and cultural communities) to earlier engagements with the ideological dimensions of mass-mediated narratives in cultural studies. Drawing on Fiske and Hartley’s theory of ‘bardic television’, it highlights the complexities of context for news narratives and the persistence of cultural configurations supporting them, in an attempt to come to terms with the transformation of news culture in the wake of new digital media formats framing current events. In an analysis of a 2013 CNN piece on the situation in Mali, it demonstrates the continued deployment of bardic television’s strategies in recent television news reporting, which indicates an adherence to journalistic standards made obsolete by internet, media. This, in turn, seems to explain some of the problems of traditional news media in adapting to the changes in political discourse over the last decades (most pervasively in the Trump era).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- A Tale of Two Concepts: Ansgar Nünning at Sixty 1
- Stories of Dangerous Life in the Post- Trauma Age: Toward a Cultural Narratology of Resilience 15
- Mind the Narratives: Towards a Cultural Narratology of Attention 37
- The End of the World (as We Know It)? – Cultural Ways of Worldmaking in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives 57
- Plumbing Distant Spatiotemporal Scales: Towards an Econarratology of Planetary Memory in Narratives of the Global South 75
- Narrative Forms in the Age of the Anthropocene: Negotiating Human-Nonhuman Relations in Global South Novels 91
- Fact, Fiction, and Everything in-between: Strategies of Reader Activation in Postcolonial Graphic Narratives 109
- ‘It’s Not Our Opinion, It’s the Opinion of Our Roles’ – Fremdverstehen Revisited or: Where Foreign Language Education and Narratology Can Meet 129
- Narrative and Visual Resources of Culture in Contemporary Indigenous Children’s Books from Australia 149
- Troubling Justice: Narratives of Revenge 165
- Erin Burnett in Mali: Bardic Television and the Genealogy of Cultural Narratology 185
- New Media Narratives: Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy and Identity in the Digital Age 199
- The ‘Death’ of the Unreliable Narrator: Toward a Functional History of Narrative Unreliability 215
- Odyssean Travels: The Migration of Narrative Form (Homer – Lamb – Joyce) 241
- A European Storyteller? Collective Narration in John Berger’s Into Their Labours 269
- Brexit as Cultural Performance: Towards a Narratology of Social Drama 293
- Contributors 321
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- A Tale of Two Concepts: Ansgar Nünning at Sixty 1
- Stories of Dangerous Life in the Post- Trauma Age: Toward a Cultural Narratology of Resilience 15
- Mind the Narratives: Towards a Cultural Narratology of Attention 37
- The End of the World (as We Know It)? – Cultural Ways of Worldmaking in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives 57
- Plumbing Distant Spatiotemporal Scales: Towards an Econarratology of Planetary Memory in Narratives of the Global South 75
- Narrative Forms in the Age of the Anthropocene: Negotiating Human-Nonhuman Relations in Global South Novels 91
- Fact, Fiction, and Everything in-between: Strategies of Reader Activation in Postcolonial Graphic Narratives 109
- ‘It’s Not Our Opinion, It’s the Opinion of Our Roles’ – Fremdverstehen Revisited or: Where Foreign Language Education and Narratology Can Meet 129
- Narrative and Visual Resources of Culture in Contemporary Indigenous Children’s Books from Australia 149
- Troubling Justice: Narratives of Revenge 165
- Erin Burnett in Mali: Bardic Television and the Genealogy of Cultural Narratology 185
- New Media Narratives: Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy and Identity in the Digital Age 199
- The ‘Death’ of the Unreliable Narrator: Toward a Functional History of Narrative Unreliability 215
- Odyssean Travels: The Migration of Narrative Form (Homer – Lamb – Joyce) 241
- A European Storyteller? Collective Narration in John Berger’s Into Their Labours 269
- Brexit as Cultural Performance: Towards a Narratology of Social Drama 293
- Contributors 321
