Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies - A Critical Encounter

The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected 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 in 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.

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"This volume is a methodologically diverse and knowledgeable cornucopia of insights into one of the most vibrant and essential fields of contemporary media studies."

Eckart Voigts, Anglistik, 28/1 (2017) 20170405

Product details

• Assisted by: Krämer (Editor), Krämer (Editor), Lucia Krämer (Editor), Ka Merten (Editor), Kai Merten (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2016
• EAN: 9783837632941
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3294-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: 2 schw.-w. Abb.
• Series: Theater; Postcolonial Studies; Postcolonial Studies 23; Theater (Transcript Verlag); Postcolonial Studies; Theater (Transcript Verlag); Postcolonial Studies 23
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)