Television, globalization and cultural identities / Chris Barker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities -- 1. Disturbing Cultural Identities -- First person singular -- The idea of culture -- Modern and postmodern subjects -- The historical subject of Marxism -- Psychoanalysis and subjectivity -- Feminism: the politics of difference -- Language, discourse and identity -- Foucault, discourse and the subject -- Essentialism and anti-essentialism -- 2. Global Television and Global Culture -- The concept of globalization -- Homogenization and fragmentation -- Globalizing the television market -- Global electronic culture -- 3. The Construction and Representation of Race and Nation -- The concepts of race and ethnicity -- National identities -- Diaspora and hybrid identities -- Television, race and representation -- 4. Sexed Subjects and Gendered Representations -- The social construction of sex and gender -- Deconstructing sexual identity -- Gender, representation and television -- Subject positions of femininity -- 5. Audiences, Identity and Television Talk -- Ideology as discourse -- The 'active' television audience -- Television audiences and cultural identity -- Television, space and identity -- Ethnicity, gender and hybridity: a case study of television talk -- They put Asians down so much -- Black, British and working class -- Soap talk and the construction of femininity -- Exploring sexual identity -- Morality, ethics and soap talk -- 6. Television and the Cultural Politics of Identity -- Identity and the question of agency -- Politics without foundations -- Private identities, democratic citizenship and the public sphere -- The cultural politics of television -- The politics of television organizations -- 7. Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities: A Summary -- Glossary of Key Concepts -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This introductory text examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. It is a wide-ranging volume, exploring many of the central cultural issues of the global age, such as media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics and identity - perhaps the topic of cultural studies over the past decade. At the core of the book are two critical arguments - that television is a proliferating resource for the construction of identities, and that cultural identity is not a fixed essential 'thing' but a contingent social construction to which language is central." "The book will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the fields of cultural studies, communication, media studies and sociology, with a wider appeal to those with an interest in the television industry. Key concepts are introduced and explained for those new to cultural studies, whilst debates are extended and enriched for those already familiar with them. The text is well structured, links the vocabularies of media studies and cultural studies, and is supported by original case study material."--Jacket.

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