Trading Culture: Global Traffic and Local Cultures in Film and Television - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861966694 ISBN 13: 9780861966691

Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Trading Culture explores a variety of contemporary and historical issues related to the trade in cultural commodities between cultures, countries, and continents. The contributors, writing from various perspectives within the fields of film, television, and cultural studies, all touch upon the distinctiveness of cultural expression and the effects of the migration of cultural commodities across national boundaries. Their essays reveal the complexities and contradictions of international trade and cultural exchange, whether in the growing cultural markets of China, Brazil, and India or in the two-way flows of largely Anglo-Saxon North Atlantic exchanges. And behind these investigations lie some larger questions about the links between cultural expression, cultural suppression, and political violence.

About this title

From the Publisher

Examines film and television media within the context of globalization.

About the Author

Sylvia Harvey is Professor of Broadcasting Policy and Co-director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation, and Ethics at the University of Lincoln, U.K. Her recent publications are on film and broadcasting policy in the journals Screen and Political Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0861966694
• ISBN 13: 9780861966691
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Harvey Sylvia