Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture

Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West (The New Media World)

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world,Â Imagining the GlobalÂ reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individualsâ€™ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and â€œthe rest.â€ From a theoretical point of view,Â Imagining the GlobalÂ endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sourcesâ€”several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languagesâ€”author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography.Â Imagining the GlobalÂ investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.
Country USA
Brand University of Michigan Press
Manufacturer University of Michigan Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-12-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780472052431

Country	USA
Brand	University of Michigan Press
Manufacturer	University of Michigan Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-12-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780472052431

Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West (The New Media World)

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