Transforming Communication About Culture: Critical New Directions (International and Intercultural Communication Annual)

Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which people's lives and experiences across the globe are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social forces. Cover 1 Contents 6 Transforming Communication About Culture: An Introduction 10 1 - Japanese-ness, Whiteness, and the “Other” in Japan’s Internationalization 22 2 - From “Orphan of Asia” to “Moses Coming Out of Egypt” 46 3 - Gender, (Inter)Nation(alization), and Culture 81 4 - Indian Press’s Response to International Satellite Television in India 106 5 - The Language of Honor (izzat) and Shame (sharm) 127 6 - Queering the Nation 153 7 - Targeting the Latino Vote in 2000 183 8 - Traveling Identities in Joking Performances 210 9 - Dialogue on the Edges 240 Author Index 302 About the Editor 316 About the Contributors 318 The 24th volume addresses how people's lives and experiences across the world are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social forces. Nine articles consider such topics as implications of the privatization of television in India, diasporic cinema and media definitions of Indian femininity, the construction of Latinos and Latino issue, and peril and play in an Arab-American community. The contributors are from a range of countries, but all now working in the US. -- c. Book News Inc