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Global Cities
Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age
Edited by Patrice Petro and Linda Krause
Rutgers University Press
In Global Cities, scholars from an impressive array of disciplines critique the growing body of literature on the process broadly known as "globalization." This interdisciplinary focus enables the authors to explore the complex geographies of modern cities, and offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings. While examining major cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, contributors insist that the study of urban experiences must remain as attentive to the material effects as to the psychic and social consequences of globalization.
Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media
Edited by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
Rutgers University Press
Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven web of connectedness.
Brown Tide Rising
Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
University of Texas Press
Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, bur
Latin Politics, Global Media
Edited by Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord
University of Texas Press
Thirteen well-known media experts examine how the intersection of globalization and democratization has transformed media systems and policies throughout Latin America.
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
University of Texas Press
The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Mass Media and Free Trade
NAFTA and the Cultural Industries
Edited by Emile G. McAnany and Kenton T. Wilkinson
University of Texas Press
This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement may have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Cana
Manufacturing the News
By Mark Fishman
University of Texas Press
How the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product.
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