Media Travels / Juan Llamas-Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and globalization.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, 2025.

Summary:

Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world.

Contents:

Introduction: What Is an Atlas of Global Media?

Part I: Transnational Lineages and Flows. 1. The World's Most Dangerous Selfies: Post-Soviet Hijinks and the Attractions of New Media

2. Sobre las Olas : Sheet Music, Radio Broadcasting, and the Popularization of a Mexican Waltz

3. Secret Garden : The Fantastic, Melodrama, and Disenchantment in South Korean Television

Part II: The Global Tensions in the Local. 4. Beautiful Desolation : Finding Apartheid in South Africa's Video Game Futures

5. Up North : The Re-Narration of Northeast Nigeria

6. Santa & Andrés : The New, The Old and The Queer in Postsocialist Cuban Cinema

Part III: Transmedia Figurations. 7. A Necklace of Songs : Transmediating Hindi Film Music

8. O'odham Dances : Soundscapes and Landscapes of Indigenous Resurgence

Part IV: Intersectional Politics in Global Media. 9. Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo : Discomfort at Elderly Women's Intimacies

10. PeaceMaker : Simulating Settler-Colonialism and Subaltern Gaming

11. Heritage Minutes : A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Peacemaker.

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