"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, fram
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ed 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." (Publisher description)
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"Este libro es una provocación para quienes lean se atrevan también a construir nuevos textos sobre autoras, pensadoras, teóricas, activistas, contadoras de historias que nos hacen faltan para seguir construyendo el mapa del pensamiento de las mujeres de la comunicación." (Cubierta del libro)
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that
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encompasses imagery studies, the moving image and non-verbal visual communication, the first three chapters of the book describe de-Westernisation discourse as a way to strengthen emic research and the Global South as both a geographical concept and, even more so, a category of diversity and pluralism. The subsequent regional case study-based chapters draw on various emic theories and methodologies and find a complex arrangement of visuality between sociocultural and sociopolitical practices and institutions." (Publisher description)
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"A partir de una perspectiva antropológica, este análisis debate acerca de la construcción de la imagen delimitada por el contexto cultural y la incidencia de este proceso en el lugar social de las personas. Asimismo, comparte propuestas para el desarrollo de una comunicación intercultural a tra
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vés de la comprensión de la figura del otro." (Reverso)
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