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Author:   Lisa Parks ,  Shanti Kumar
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780814766927

ISBN 10:   0814766927
Pages:   470
Publication Date:   22 December 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"1 The Rise of the Global Media2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 3 Who We Are, Who We Are Not: Battle of the Global Paradigms4 Our World, Satellite Televisuality, and the Fantasy of Global Presence5 Flows and Other Close Encounters with Television6 Media Imperialism 7 Is There Anything Called Global Television Studies?8 Reviving ""Cultural Imperialism""9 Going Global: International Coproductions and the Disappearing Domestic Audience in Canada10 Francophonie and the National Airwaves: A History of Television in Senegal11 On the Margins of the Constitutional State12 Television, Chechnya, and National Identity after the Cold War: Whose Imagined Community?13 Television and Trustworthiness in Hong Kong14 Soothsayers, Politicians, Lesbian Scribes: The Philippine Movie Talk Show15 Act Globally, Think Locally16 Where the Global Meets the Local17 Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media18 Local, Global, or National? Popular Music on Indonesian Television19 Marriages Are Made on Television20 Culture and Communication21 Narrowcasting in Diaspora22 Postnational Television?23 African American Television in an Age of Globalization24 Teletubbies: Infant Cyborg Desire and the Fear of Global Visual Culture"

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<p> Everybody knows that TV is crucial to globalization. Now, thanks to Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, we know why and how television matters globally. With TV studies moving out of the classroom and onto the world stage, this volume will be an indispensable passport.

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Everybody knows that TV is crucial to globalization. Now, thanks to Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, we know why and how television matters globally. With TV studies moving out of the classroom and onto the world stage, this volume will be an indispensable passport. -- - Toby Miller

Author Information

Lisa Parks is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellite Technologies and Visual Media. Shanti Kumar is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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