Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

by Tomlinson

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Cultural imperialism is treated as the central critical concept in a number of related disourses: the debate about 'Media Imperialism'; the discourse of national cultural identity; the critique of multinational capitalism and the critique of cultural modernity. Analysis of these various discourses reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural — as distinect from economic or political — imperialism is forrmulated. Cultural Imperialism deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. The author suggests that the critical discourses of cultural imperialism are bext understood, not in terms of natural cultures, but as protests against the rise of global cultural modernity.

  • ISBN10 0801842492
  • ISBN13 9780801842498
  • Publish Date 27 May 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 19 January 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press