Contemporary media culture and the remnants of a colonial past
By: Kent A. Ono.
Series: Critical intercultural communication studies -- v. 8; Critical intercultural communication studies -- v. 8.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780820479392; 9780820479408
Subjects: Imperialism on television; Imperialism in popular culture -- United States; Imperialism in motion pictures
Description: "Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Continuing colonialism; title: To be a vampire on Buffy the vampire slayer : race and ("other") socially marginalizing positions on horror TV; title: "America's" apple pie : baseball, Japan-bashing, and the sexual threat of economic miscegenation; title: Power rangers : an ideological critique of neocolonialism; title: Civilized colonialism : Pocahontas as neocolonial rhetoric / with Derek T. Buescher; title: Domesticating terrorism : a neocolonial economy of différance; title: Conclusion: Making the implicit explicit.