| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 192 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
New media world |
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New media world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index. |
| 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." |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. It also explores how individuals' consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and of 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 U.S. and "the rest." The book's translocal multisited approach helps deconstruct the role of the U.S. as the most significant global producer and representative of "the West" while keeping a critical eye on its continuing power to shape individuals' cultural experiences. From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of "how one local can help us understand another local." It demonstrates how a focused multisited analysis can help us better conceptualize the workings of globalized cultural dynamics and reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global under conditions of globalization. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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Mass media and globalization.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- France.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- Japan.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Mass media and culture. (OCoLC)fst01011339
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Mass media and globalization. (OCoLC)fst01748085
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01011303
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States. (NL-LeOCL)078939836
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France. (NL-LeOCL)078509335
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Japan. (NL-LeOCL)078551439
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Darling-Wolf, Fabienne. Imagining the global 9780472072439 (DLC) 2014020615 (OCoLC)881560412 |
| ISBN |
9780472120796 (electronic bk.) |
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0472120794 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472900152 (electronic bk.) |
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0472900153 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472072439 |
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0472072439 |
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9780472052431 |
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0472052438 |
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