Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations

Natascha Gentz is Junior Professor of Sinology at Frankfurt University and the coeditor (with Michael Lackner) of Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China. Stefan Kramer is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Constance, Germany.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Media of Culture and the Culture of the MediaNatascha Gentz & Stefan Kramer 1. The Printing Press and the Internet: From a Culture of Memory to a Culture of AttentionAleida Assmann 2. Globalization and the Experience of Culture: The Resilience of NationhoodWimal Dissanayake 3. Transcultural Narrations of the Local: Taiwanese Cinema Between Utopia and HeterotopiaStefan Kramer 4. Garifuna Song, Groove Locale and "World-Music" MediationMichael C. Stone 5. The Thousand Faces of Xena: Transculturality through Multi-IdentityMiriam Butt & Kyle Wohlmut 6. Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and RepresentationArif Dirlik 7. How to Get Rid of China: Ethnicity, Memory, and Trauma in Gao Xingjian’s Novel One Man’s BibleNatascha Gentz 8. Film and Music, or Instabilities of National IdentityRoger Hillman 9. The Cinematic Support to National(istic) Mythology: The Italian Peplum 1910–1930Irmbert Schenk 10. Their Master’s Voice?The Coverage of Intifada II on Israeli TelevisionTamar Liebes 11. Drifted Liberties and Diffracted Identities?Algerian Audiences and the "Parabola"Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 12. The Right to Be Different: Photographic Discourse and Cultural Identity in HungaryPeter Braun ContributorsIndex