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This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have
represented national identity in their films. The focus of this
book is on independent and art house filmmakers and how cinema
plays a vital role in constructing national and cultural identity.
The authors examine post-2000 films which predominantly deal with
issues of national identity and demonstrate how they tackle
questions of national identity. Bangladesh is seemingly a
homogenous country consisting 98% of Bengali and 90% of Muslim.
This majority group has two dominant identities - Bengaliness (the
ethno-linguistic identity) and Muslimness (the religious identity).
Bengaliness is perceived as secular-modern whereas Muslimness is
perceived as traditional and conservative. However, Bangladeshi
independent and art house filmmakers portray the nationhood of the
country with an enthusiasm and liveliness that exceeds these two
categories. In addition to these categories, the authors add two
more dimensions to the approach to discuss identity: Popular
Religion and Transformation. The study argues that these identity
categories are represented in the films, and that they both
reproduce and challenge dominant discourses of nationalism.
Providing a new addition to the discourse of contemporary national
identity, the book will be of interest to researchers studying
international film and media studies, independent cinema studies,
Asian cinema, and South Asian culture, politics, and identity
politics.
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and
institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book
is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its
cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular
culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights
how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active
rather than reactive role in manipulating global cultural and
capital flows. Broad in geographical sweep and rich in contemporary
examples, this work will appeal to those interested in Asian
popular culture from a variety of perspectives including, political
economy, anthropology, communication studies, media studies and
ethnomusicology.
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and
institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book
is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its
cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular
culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights
how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active
rather than reactive role in manipulating global cultural and
capital flows.
Unlike many studies on globalization which highlight functional
disjunctures of 'cultural imperialism', "Refashioning Pop Music in
Asia" stresses that it is the local context which imbues specific
meanings for different audiences, in turn allowing a creative
synthesis that makes pop music a unique channel through which
cultural identity, political resistance, social expression and
personal desire can be experienced. Popular musical expression in
Asia-its meaning and its practice-cannot be reduced to the State,
market, tradition or to a simple appropriation of Western forms,
rather, it is at the juncture of the local and global that an
aesthetic refashioning of traditional and pop music genres emerge.
Broad in geographical sweep and rich in contemporary examples, this
work will appeal to those interested in Asian popular culture from
a variety of perspectives including, political economy,
anthropology, communication studies, media studies and
ethnomusicology.
This unique textbook is a manageable introduction to all the
theories and approaches that make up media studies, giving students
an informed, balanced and global view of media today. Exploring the
evolution of media internationally, this book offers theory and
evidence in its discussion of past and present modes of media.
Divided into four parts, readers are offered insight into critical
theories and topics such as 'Social and Global Change,' 'the
Influence of Media,' 'Intercultural Communication' and 'News as a
Form of Knowledge.' Written by leading experts within media
studies, Balnaves, Donald and Shoesmith lend their wealth of
knowledge to the student reader through this text, guiding them
through the progression of cultural and media studies. Genuinely
global and cutting-edge, this leading textbook is the ideal
learning resource for lecturers of media studies and undergraduate
and postgraduate students seeking gain a thorough understanding of
worldwide media, past and present.
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