1st Edition

Global Media Dialogues Industry, Politics, and Culture

Edited By Lee Artz Copyright 2024
272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content. Looking at a wide swath of the world, these authors show the emergence of transnational collaboration in global television and film production across national borders that seem to transcend national cultures and... Read more

List of Contributors

Introduction: Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and Culture

Lee Artz

Chapter 1: Media Imperialism in Global Context

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Chapter 2: Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Conflict

Jerry Harris

Chapter 3: The Pan-African Media Gap: Empire and the Coloniality of Identity Politics in Post-apartheid South Africa

Last Moyo and Allen Munoriyarwa

Chapter 4: Global Media: From Media Imperialism to Global Media Giants

Rodrigo Gómez and Benjamin J. Birkinbine

Chapter 5: Little Giants in Latin America

Lee Artz

Chapter 6: South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural Imperialism

Anis Rahman

Chapter 7: A New Cultural Imperialist Rivalry?: A Political Economy of Communication, for Neither Washington Nor Beijing

Tanner Mirrlees

Chapter 8: The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and Geopolitics

Yuezhi Zhao and Anis Rahman

Conclusion: Editor’s Postscript

 

Biography

Lee Artz (PhD, University of Iowa), a former machinist and union steelworker, is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Artz has published 12 books and 50 book chapters and journal articles on media practices, social change, and democratic communication. He speaks regularly on global media, popular culture, media hegemony, and the political economy of the media.