Creative destruction /
A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this st...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Trade between cultures
- Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology
- Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss
- Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care
- Dumbing down and the least common denominator
- Should national culture matter?