Mass Media and Free Trade : NAFTA and the Cultural Industries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAnany, Emile G.

Contributor:

Wilkinson, Kenton T.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : University of Texas Press, 1996.

Summary:

As United States television programs, movies, music, and other cultural products make their way around the globe, a vigorous debate over "cultural imperialism" is growing in many countries. This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Canada. After an overview of free trade and the cultural industries, the book covers the following topics: dominance and resistance, cultural trade and identity in relation to Mexico and to French Canada, and intellectual property rights. Based on present trends, the contributors predict that there will be a steadily increasing flow of cultural products from the United States to its neighbors. This book grew out of a 1994 conference that brought together leaders of the cultural industries, policy makers, and scholars. It represents state-of-the-art thinking about the global influence of U.S. cultural industries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Part One Overview

1 Introduction

2 Culture and Trade: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Part Two Dominance and Resistance

3 Television and Film in a Freer International Trade Environment: US Dominance and Canadian Responses

4 Other People's Fictions: Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Integrity, and International Media Strategies

5 As the World Turns: Television Soap Operas and Global Media Culture

Part Three Cultural Trade and Identity: Mexico

6 Will Nationalism be Bilingual?

7 North Americans or Latin Americans? The Redefinition of Mexican Identity and the Free Trade Agreements

8 Media Reception on the Mexican Border with the United States

9 The US-Mexico Border as Post-NAFTA Mexico

Part Four Cultural Trade and Identity: Quebec

10 Walking on a Tightrope: The Markets of Cultural Products in Quebec

11 There Goes the Neighborhood: Montreal's Television Market and Free Trade

12 U.S. Best-Sellers in French Quebec and English Canada

13 Cultural Exemptionalism Revisited: Quebec Music Industries in the Face of Free Trade

Part Five Creativity and Control: Copyright and Contract

14 Mass Communication, Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade, and the Popular Music Industry

15 Copyright, Contract, the Cultural Industries, and NAFTA

Appendixes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-292-79903-9

OCLC:

1309030965