Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (244 pages)
- SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies .
- SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies .
Intro -- GLOBALIZATION,CULTURAL IDENTITIES,and MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:Media of Culture and the Culture of the Media -- The Printing Press and the Internet:From a Culture of Memory to a Culture of Attention -- Globalization and the Experience of Culture:The Resilience of Nationhood -- Transcultural Narrations of the Local:Taiwanese Cinema Between Utopia and Heterotopia -- Garifuna Song, Groove Locale and "World-Music" Mediation -- The Thousand Faces of Xena:Transculturality through Multi-Identity -- Literature/Identity:Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation -- How to Get Rid of China:Ethnicity, Memory, and Trauma in Gao Xingjian's Novel One Man's Bible -- Film and Music, or Instabilities of National Identity -- The Cinematic Support to National(istic) Mythology:The Italian Peplum 1910-1930 -- Their Master's Voice?The Coverage of Intifada II onIsraeli Television -- Drifted Liberties and Diffracted Identities?Algerian Audiences and the "Parabola" -- The Right to Be Different:Photographic Discourse and Cultural Identity in Hungary -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Explores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities.