Contents
Introduction: A Translocal Approach to Imagining the Global
1. Un-American Idols: How the Global/National/Local Intersect
2. Holier-than-Thou: Representing the “Other” and Vindicating Ourselves in International News
3. Talking about non-no: (Re)fashioning Race and Gender in Global Magazines
4. Disjuncture and Difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: Embracing Hip-hop as a Global Genre
5. What West Is It? Anime and Manga according to Candy and Goldorak
6. Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Global Audiences
7. Lessons from a Translocal Approach—or, Reflections on Contemporary Glocamalgamation
Conclusion: Getting over Our “Illusion d’optique”
Notes
Bibliography
Index