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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-100791466841

ISBN-139780791466841

eBay Product ID (ePID)46904680

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Number of Pages242 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGlobalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations

SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Media Studies, Globalization, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

AuthorStefan Kramer

SeriesSuny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-014023

ReviewsThis is a fabulous collection of cultural plentitude and critical lucidity that actively comes to terms with the altered 'global village' media formations, fluctuating dialectics, historical situations, and unstable identity terrains of globalization and localization. It will stand at the forefront of global cultural-political theory and cultural studies work.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Media of Culture and the Culture of the Media Natascha Gentz & Stefan Kramer 1. The Printing Press and the Internet: From a Culture of Memory to a Culture of Attention Aleida Assmann 2. Globalization and the Experience of Culture: The Resilience of Nationhood Wimal Dissanayake 3. Transcultural Narrations of the Local: Taiwanese Cinema Between Utopia and Heterotopia Stefan Kramer 4. Garifuna Song, Groove Locale and World-Music Mediation Michael C. Stone 5. The Thousand Faces of Xena: Transculturality through Multi-Identity Miriam Butt & Kyle Wohlmut 6. Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation Arif Dirlik 7. How to Get Rid of China: Ethnicity, Memory, and Trauma in Gao Xingjian's Novel One Man's Bible Natascha Gentz 8. Film and Music, or Instabilities of National Identity Roger Hillman 9. The Cinematic Support to National(istic) Mythology: The Italian Peplum 1910-1930 Irmbert Schenk 10. Their Master's Voice? The Coverage of Intifada II on Israeli Television Tamar Liebes 11. Drifted Liberties and Diffracted Identities? Algerian Audiences and the Parabola Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 12. The Right to Be Different: Photographic Discourse and Cultural Identity in Hungary Peter Braun Contributors Index

SynopsisExplores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities. Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations provides a multidirectional approach for understanding the role of media in constructing cultural identities in a newly globalized media environment. The contributors cover a wide range of topics from different geopolitical areas, historical periods, and media genres. Case studies examined include the shift from print to Internet, local representations of modern world cinema and glo/cal television, narrative strategies in transnational literature, and cultural economics of the mediation of world music in India, China, Algeria, Israel, Europe, and the United States. This case study approach allows for deeper insights into the complexity of each cultural subsystem as part of the whole media culture system. This book exemplifies a transcultural and transdisciplinary dialogue that maps out new-relocalized-territories and borders for mediated cultural identities and also reveals the complexity and connectedness of all of these discourses., Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations provides a multidirectional approach for understanding the role of media in constructing cultural identities in a newly globalized media environment. The contributors cover a wide range of topics from different geopolitical areas, historical periods, and media genres. Case studies examined include the shift from print to Internet, local representations of modern world cinema and glo/cal television, narrative strategies in transnational literature, and cultural economics of the mediation of world music in India, China, Algeria, Israel, Europe, and the United States. This case study approach allows for deeper insights into the complexity of each cultural subsystem as part of the whole media culture system. This book exemplifies a transcultural and transdisciplinary dialogue that maps out new--relocalized--territories and borders for mediated cultural identities and also reveals the complexity and connectedness of all of these discourses.

LC Classification NumberHM621.G59 2006