Global/local : cultural production and the transnational imaginary /

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Author / Creator:Wilson, Rob, 1947-
Imprint:Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996.
Description:vi, 399 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2425391
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Other authors / contributors:Dissanayake, Wimal.
ISBN:0822317028 (alk. paper)
0822317125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Tracking the Global/Local
  • I. Globalizations
  • The Global in the Local
  • Localism, Globalism, and Cultural Identity
  • A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State
  • Real Virtuality
  • Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre
  • From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization
  • II. Local Conjunctions
  • Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International"
  • Age
  • Desiring the Involuntary: Machinic Assemblage and Transnationalism in Deleuze and Robocop 2
  • In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada
  • III. Global/Local Disruptions
  • Globalism's Localisms
  • The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary
  • Goodbye Paradise: Global/Localism in the American Pacific
  • The Case of the Emergent Cultural Criticism Columns in Taiwan's Newspaper Literary Supplements: Global/Local Dialectics in Contemporary Taiwanese Public Culture
  • South Korea as Social Space
  • Afterword: "Global/Local"
  • Memory and Thought
  • Index
  • Contributors