Full Description
Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.
The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts:
Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments.
Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property.
This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.
Contents
General Introduction to the Routledge Handbook to Culture and Media of the Americas Part I Literature and Music 1. Introduction - Literature and Music in the Americas 2. African-descendant Literatures 3. Borders 4. Children's Literature 5. Cosmopolitanism 6. Crónicas and New Journalism 7. Dance 8. Foundational Discourses 9. Graphic Novels 10. Indigenous Literatures 11. Life Writing 12. Magical Realism and The Fantastic 13. Migration Literature 14. Modernism and Postmodernisms 15. Plantation Literature 16. Popular Music Flows 17. Protest Music 18. Public Intellectuals 19. Silencing 20. Slave Narratives 21. Trauma Literature 22. Travel Writing 23. Utopias Part II Media and Visual Cultures 24. Introduction: Inter-American Studies on Media and Communication 25. Cinema 26. Comics 27. Cultural Industries 28. Digital Culture 29. Freedom of Expression and Censorship 30. Indigenous Media Production 31. Intellectual Property 32. Journalism 33. Latino Media 34. Media Consumption 35. Media Flows 36. Media Participation 37. Muralism 38. Photography 39. Public Media 40. Radio 41. Social Media 42. Telecommunications 43. Television 44. Video Games 45. Visual Cultures
