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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index
Description:
"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 reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals' 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 opportunites to move beyond the common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and 'the rest'. From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale"--Back cover
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."