Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

✍ Scribed by Kai Merten (editor), Lucia Krämer (editor)

• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection brings together experts from media and communication studies with postcolonial studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. It encompasses essays on topics including media convergence, transcultural subjectivity, hegemony, piracy, and media history and colonialism. Drawing on examples from film, literature, music, TV, and the internet, the contributors investigate the transnational dimensions of today's media, engage with local and global media politics, and discuss media outlets as economic agents, thus illustrating mechanisms of power in postcolonial and neo-colonial mediascapes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover. Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Global Media
Media Convergence
Media Globalization. The ‘Global Public Sphere’ – A Critical Reappraisal
Transcultural Subjectivity. Beyond the Global/Local Divide – Towards a Transcultural Understanding of Mediated Subjectivity
Diasporic Media. Global Media and the Emergence of ‘Lonely Sojourners’ and ‘Passive Transnationals
Part II: Media Politics
Inter/National Media Politics. Approaches to Postcolonial Studies
Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Postcolonial Media Theory and Culture
Performing Regulation. The Politics of Postcolonial Film Exhibition and DVD Distribution
Postcolonial Piracy
Sound Cultures
Commodification
The Marketing of Postcolonial Literature
Media History
Postcolonial Media History. Historical Arguments for a Future Field of Research
Notes on Contributors