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Is the international spread of American television programming swamping the national identities of many countries with "wall-to-wall Dallas"? Or is this merely an argument that serves the interests of European national elites, masking larger issues of television's perpetuation of existing class and power structures? Global Television investigates these and other widespread conflicts arising front the dramatic changes that have taken place in the structure and uses of television in the past decade. It examines in particular how television has become a device for the assertion of cultural and economic domination.The contributors take up the shift from film to television as the principal bearer of national ideology; the changing structure of national broadcasting in France, Israel, and the Soviet Union; the effects of the global distribution of advertising and stereotypic American programming; and the resistance to media domination by independent producers, video collectives, and various national networks.Included are essays by Thomas Elsaesser, Patricia Mellencamp, Armand Mattelart, Simon Watney, and David Goldberg, as well as interviews with Paul Virilio and Jay Chiat.Global Television is a Wedge special issue. Since its inception in 1982, Wedge has provided a critical forum for cultural and political debate. The general editors are Phil Mariani and Brian Wallis.
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Suchin Channegowda
reviewed Global Television on January 03, 2011
Global Television
Brian Williams made me buy this book. Specifically, his tale of combat and the ensuing controversy gave rise to a thoughtful article on Slate referencing Living Room War. The article led me to think that this book was another Context of No Context, another brilliant, insightful essay on the insidious influence of television upon our collective subconscious. Although it did not live up to this promise, the essays here do reach, near the middle of the book, to some insight into the self-deceit practiced by a lazy Vietnam era news media (and a lazy Vietnam era leadership)'an insight which still has relevance today! Most journalists are young (well, younger than me) or dependent on connected sources, and their editors need to put out stories they think people will want to read and that don't offend key sponsors, and in this context (because of this context) a story about, say, how capitalism in India is destroying many lives as it raises the lives of others (see Capitalism'A Ghost Story) is never told. But, sometimes, perhaps, there will be a young Morley Safer, out of breath and under fire, trying hard to get the story.
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