Cultural imperialism : a critical introduction / John Tomlinson.

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Main Author: Tomlinson, John, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1991]
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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Table of Contents:
  • The discourse of cultural imperialism. The concept of cultural imperialism
  • The cultural imperialism thesis ; the blind men without the elephant
  • Who speaks?
  • Four ways to talk about cultural imperialism
  • Some advice on reading from Blaise Pascal
  • Media imperialism. Media imperialism theory and the retreat of culture
  • Reading Donald Duck ; the ideology-critique of the 'imperialist text'
  • 'Watching Dallas' : the imperialist text and audience research
  • Media and culture
  • Cultural imperialism and the discourse of nationality. Cultural identity : the UNESCO discourse
  • 'Yanquies afuera'
  • Nation and culture as 'imagined community'
  • National identity as a consequence of modernity
  • Culture and time
  • Domination and cultural autonomy
  • The culture of capitalism. Cultural imperialism : pioneer of capitalism?
  • Multinational capitalism and cultural homogenisation
  • Rum and coke : capitalism, consumerism and the Third World
  • Consumer culture in the West : euphoria in unhappiness
  • The culture of capitalism
  • Modernity, development and cultural fate. The ambiguities of modernity
  • Modernity as cultural fate
  • The discontents of modernity : development as 'social imaginary'
  • What is to blame for modernity?
  • From imperialism to globalisation.