Imagining the Global : : Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West / / Fabienne Darling-Wolf.

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that r...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor, [Michigan] : : University of Michigan Press,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:New media world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (201 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global
  • Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect
  • Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news
  • Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines
  • Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre
  • What West is it? anime and manga according to Candy and Goldorak
  • Imagining the global: transnational media and global audiences
  • Lessons from a translocal approach? or, reflections on contemporary glocamalgamation
  • Conclusion: getting over our "illusion d'optique".