Mass Media and Free Trade : : NAFTA and the Cultural Industries / / ed. by Kenton T. Wilkinson, Emile G. McAnany.

As United States television programs, movies, music, and other cultural products make their way around the globe, a vigorous debate over "cultural imperialism" is growing in many countries. This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Part One Overview
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Culture and Trade: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations
  • Part Two Dominance and Resistance
  • 3 Television and Film in a Freer International Trade Environment: US Dominance and Canadian Responses
  • 4 Other People's Fictions: Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Integrity, and International Media Strategies
  • 5 As the World Turns: Television Soap Operas and Global Media Culture
  • Part Three Cultural Trade and Identity: Mexico
  • 6 Will Nationalism be Bilingual?
  • 7 North Americans or Latin Americans? The Redefinition of Mexican Identity and the Free Trade Agreements
  • 8 Media Reception on the Mexican Border with the United States
  • 9 The US-Mexico Border as Post-NAFTA Mexico
  • Part Four Cultural Trade and Identity: Quebec
  • 10 Walking on a Tightrope: The Markets of Cultural Products in Quebec
  • 11 There Goes the Neighborhood: Montreal's Television Market and Free Trade
  • 12 U.S. Best-Sellers in French Quebec and English Canada
  • 13 Cultural Exemptionalism Revisited: Quebec Music Industries in the Face of Free Trade
  • Part Five Creativity and Control: Copyright and Contract
  • 14 Mass Communication, Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade, and the Popular Music Industry
  • 15 Copyright, Contract, the Cultural Industries, and NAFTA
  • Appendixes
  • Index