REORIENTING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: INDIAN AND CHINESE MEDIA BEYOND BORDERS.

CURTIN, Michael (Edits), Hemant Shah (Edits).

ISBN 10: 0252035011 / ISBN 13: 9780252035012

Published by University Of Illinois Press, Chicago, 2010

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8vo. pp ix, 313. Original publisher's red cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 9780252035012 About fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: REORIENTING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: INDIAN AND CHINESE MEDIA BEYOND BORDERS.
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252035011
• ISBN 13: 9780252035012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

Emphasizing the global nature of Indian and Chinese film, television, and digital media, Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders provides a diverse mix of alternative perspectives that collectively shift the discussion of media globalization away from Hollywood and New York.

Linked by a shared history of colonialism, state socialism, large diasporas, and recent market liberalization, India and China are poised to become twenty-first-century world powers. While both enjoy a rich ensemble of religious iconography, legends, and folk traditions, Indian and Chinese producers and consumers are today challenged to find modes of expression that are culturally authentic and commercially viable in an increasingly globalized media environment.

Essays cover topics such as the influence of transnational Indian families on the narrative elements of Bollywood productions, the rise of made-in-China blockbusters, the development of pan-Asian cinema, and migrants' use of the Internet to maintain connections with their homelands.

Contributors are Michael Curtin, Chua Beng Huat, Shanti Kumar, Chin-Chuan Lee, Madhavi Mallapragada, Divya C. McMillin, Sreya Mitra, Sujata Moorti, Zhongdang Pan, Aswin Punathambekar, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Hemant Shah, Lakshmi Srinivas, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, and Yuezhi Zhao.

About the Author

Michael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellinchamp Professor of Global Media and a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV.

Hemant Shah is the director of graduate studies and a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the coauthor of Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict: Competing Visions of America.