Description
Book Synopsis* Are cultural identities socially constructed?
* How are race, nation, sex and gender constructed and represented on television?
* What is the impact of globalization on television and cultural identities?
This introductory text examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. It is a wide-ranging volume, exploring many of the central cultural issues in contemporary cultural studies, such as media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics and identity - perhaps the topic of cultural studies over the past decade. At the core of the book are two critical arguments - that television is a proliferating resource for the construction of cultural identity, and that cultural identity is not a fixed essential 'thing' but a contingent social construction to which language is central.
The book will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the fields of cu
Trade Review"As an introduction to cultural studies, with very clear capsule reviews of complex interdisciplinary literatures, it will be a useful supporting text for many cultural geography courses. As a clear introduction to key debates about identity and cultural politics this book is highly successful" - James Kneale
Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
television, globalization and cultural identities
Disturbing cultural identities
Global television and global culture
The construction and representation of race and nation
The construction and representation of sex and gender
Audiences, identity and television talk
Television and the cultural politics of identity
Television and cultural identities
a summary
Glossary of key concepts
Bibliography
Index.
