Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

This collection brings together experts from media and communication studies with postcolonial studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. It encompasses essays on topics including media convergence, transcultural subjectivity, hegemony, piracy, and media history and colonialism. Drawing on examples from film, literature, music, TV, and the internet, the contributors investigate the transnational dimensions of today's media, engage with local and global media politics, and discuss media outlets as economic agents, thus illustrating mechanisms of power in postcolonial and neo-colonial mediascapes.

Author: Kai Merten
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: 08/16/2016
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9783837632941
ISBN10: 3837632946
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

About the Author
Kai Merten is professor of British literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Lucia Krämer is professor of British studies at the University of Passau, Germany.