Synopses & Reviews
From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from representations of terrorism on German television to the international Teletubbies phenomenon, TV lies at the nexus of globalization and transnational culture.
Planet TV provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of global television, combining previously published essays by pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in the field. Organized thematically, the volume explores such issues as cultural imperialism, nationalism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, ethnicity and cultural hybridity. These themes are illuminated by concrete examples and case studies derived from empirical work on global television industries, programs, and audiences in diverse social, historical, and cultural contexts.
Developing a new critical framework for exploring the political, economic, sociological and technological dimensions of television cultures, and countering the assumption that global television is merely a result of the current dominance of the West in world affairs, Planet TV demonstrates that the global dimensions of television were imagined into existence very early on in its contentious history. Parks and Kumar have assembled the critical moments in television's past in order to understand its present and future.
Contributors include Ien Ang, Arjun Appadurai, Jose B. Capino, Michael Curtin, Jo Ellen Fair, John Fiske, Faye Ginsburg, R. Harindranath, Timothy Havens, Edward S. Herman, Michele Hilmes, Olaf Hoerschelmann, Shanti Kumar, Moya Luckett, Robert McChesney, Divya C. McMillin, Nicholas Mirzoeff, David Morley, Hamid Naficy, Lisa Parks, James Schwoch, John Sinclair, R. Anderson Sutton, Serra Tinic, John Tomlinson, and Mimi White.
Review
"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,
Synopsis
Provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of global television, combining previously published essays by pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in the field.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Rise of the global media /Edward S. Herman and Robert McChesney --Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy /Arjun Appadurai --Who we are, who we are not : battle of the global paradigms /Michele Hilmes --Our world, satellite televisuality, and the fantasy of global presence /Lisa Parks --Flows and other close encounters with television /Mimi White --Media imperialism /John Tomlinson --Is there anything called global television studies? /Shanti Kumar --Reviving "cultural imperialism : international audiences, global capitalism, and the transnational elite /Ramaswami Harindranath --Going global : international coproductions and the disappearing domestic audience in Canada /Serra Tinic --Francophonie and the national airwaves : a history of television in Senegal /Jo Ellen Fair --On the margins of the constitutional state : terrorism on German television and the rewriting of national narratives /Olaf Hoerschelmann --Television, Chechnya and national identity after the Cold War : whose imagined community? /James Schwoch --Television and trustworthiness in Hong Kong /Michael Curtin --Soothsayers, politicians, lesbian scribes : the Philippine movie talk show /Jose B. Capino --Act globally, think locally /John Fiske --Where the global meets the local : notes from the sitting room /David Morley --Embedded aesthetics : creating a discursive space for indigenous media /Faye Ginsburg --Local, global, or national? Popular music on Indonesian television /R. Anderson Sutton --Marriages are made on television : globalization and national identity in India /Divya C. McMillin --Culture and communication : toward an ethnographic critique of media consumption in the transnational media system /Ien Ang --Narrowcasting in diaspora : Iranian television in Los Angeles /Hamid Naficy --Postnational television? Goodness gracious me and the Britasian diaspora /Moya Luckett --African American television in an age of globalization /Timothy Havens --Teletubbies : infant cyborg desire and the fear of global visual culture /Nicholas Mirzoeff.