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Convergences: Eurofiction Fourth Report edited by Milly Buonanno. E-book. Formato PDF Milly Buonanno - Liguori Editore, 2013 -
Convergences is the fourth annual report of the Eurofiction research project. Based on quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the Eurofiction monitoring of domestic drama and comedy in the key European markets, and beyond, provides information and knowledge which is invaluable to media scholars, broadcasting professionals, policy and decision-makers and any other people involved or interested in the international television industry and culture. This report refers to 1999, a year marked by a multiplicity of convergence processes: companies mergers and acquisitions, sinergy between television and the internet, cross-border circulation of formats – a phenomenon extended, beyond entertainment, to fiction as well. A great transformation is on its way, deeply reshaping the audiovisual landscape. Which has not changed, up to now, at least two structural tendencies as far as television consumption is concerned: audiences love and want stories; and first and foremost they prefer and appreciate domestic stories, rooted in the home culture and national television tradition. The growth of the European broadcasting industry in the last four years is firmly based on this premise.
A brief history of the future of the United States of Europe. E-book. Formato PDF Gianni Pittella - Fazi Editore, 2013 -
2012 will be remembered as a turning point in the history of European integration. Somewhat reluctantly, after flirting for years with dangerous and probably unviable alternatives, Angela Merkel’s Germany seems to have made peace with the idea that that the only way to save the euro is to create a genuine European “political union”: the United States of Europe. Following Hollande’s election in France, the grip of neoliberalism and austerity on the continent is slowly but unrelentingly easing. A fiscal and monetary union cannot survive if it is not backed by a full-blown federal state capable of (partly) assuming the debts of individual nation states; of issuing eurobonds through a federal Treasury; of spearheading a radical reform of the international monetary system; and much more. Europe cannot surrender itself, and the world, to the overwhelming power of global finance: on the contrary, it should champion an international agreement to put an end to unregulated capital and financial flows. Tightly regulating financial traffic is nowadays as crucial as controlling air traffic. Moreover, Europe needs to rapidly develop an ambitious, continent-wide employment-enhancing strategy. The neoliberal policies thus pursued – based on the principle that first comes austerity, then growth – have proven to be a colossal failure. We have to go back to Keynes, who flipped the theory over: investments create savings, income and employment.