Planet TV : A Global Television Reader

by Parks, Lisa; Kumar, Shanti

• ISBN13: 9780814766927
• ISBN10: 0814766927
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

View theTable of Contents. Read theIntroduction.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 TVprovides 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 TVdemonstrates 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
Lisa Parks
Shanti Kumar
PART I: Pulses
Historicizing ``Global Television''	19	(2)
The Rise of the Global Media	21	(19)
Edward S. Herman
Robert McChesney
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy	40	(13)
Arjun Appadurai
Who We Are, Who We Are Not: Battle of the Global Paradigms	53	(21)
Michele Hilmes
Our World, Satellite Televisuality, and the Fantasy of Global Presence	74	(20)
Lisa Parks
Flows and Other Close Encounters with Television	94	(19)
Mimi White
PART II: Over the Air
Revisiting Western Imperialism	111	(2)
Media Imperialism	113	(22)
John Tomlinson
Is There Anything Called Global Television Studies?	135	(20)
Shanti Kumar
Reviving ``Cultural Imperialism'': International Audiences, Global Capitalism, and the Transnational Elite	155	(14)
Ramaswami Harindranath
Going Global: International Coproductions and the Disappearing Domestic Audience in Canada	169	(20)
Serra Tinic
PART III: Monitoring
Television and National Identity	187	(2)
Francophonie and the National Airwaves: A History of Television in Senegal	189	(22)
Jo Ellen Fair
On the Margins of the Constitutional State: Terrorism on German Television and the Rewriting of National Narratives	211	(15)
Olaf Hoerschelmann
Television, Chechnya, and National Identity after the Cold War: Whose Imagined Community?	226	(17)
James Schwoch
Television and Trustworthiness in Hong Kong	243	(19)
Michael Curtin
Soothsayers, Politicians, Lesbian Scribes: The Philippine Movie Talk Show	262	(15)
Jose B. Capino
PART IV: Uplink/Downlink
Negotiating the Global and the Local	275	(2)
Act Globally, Think Locally	277	(9)
John Fiske
Where the Global Meets the Local: Notes from the Sitting Room	286	(17)
David Morley
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media	303	(17)
Faye Ginsburg
Local, Global, or National? Popular Music on Indonesian Television	320	(21)
R. Anderson Sutton
Marriages Are Made on Television: Globalization and National Identity in India	341	(22)
Divya C. McMillin
PART V: Channelsurfing
Imagining Transnationalism	361	(2)
Culture and Communication: Toward an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System	363	(13)
Ien Ang
Narrowcasting in Diaspora: Iranian Television in Los Angeles	376	(26)
Hamid Naficy
Postnational Television? Goodness Gracious Me and the Britasian Diaspora	402	(21)
Moya Luckett
African American Television in an Age of Globalization	423	(16)
Timothy Havens
Teletubbies: Infant Cyborg Desire and the Fear of Global Visual Culture	439	(16)
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Contributors	455	(4)
Index	459