ISBN:
0275971120
,
9780275971120
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 227 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Southern California and the World
DDC:
303.48/27949
Keywords:
Civilization, Modern American influences
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Globalization
;
California, Southern Civilization
;
California, Southern Relations
Abstract:
As underscored by the emergence of the Los Angeles school of contemporary urban studies, the Southern California experience-its popular culture, politics, economics, spatial structure, ethnic diversity, technologies, and lifestyles-has an impact and relevance well beyond it own immediate geographic setting. This book explores the parallel and interlinked constructions of identities, imaginations, and activities in and between Southern California and the world beyond. In particular, the volume shows how the local and global are interfused with one another, making it evident that the connections
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I: Southern California as a Nexus to the World; 2. Globalization, Digitalization, and Hollywood; 3. The Wolf at the Door: Hollywood and the Film Market in China; 4. Making the Most of Southern California's Global Engagement; Part II: Southern California as a Microcosm of the World; 5. Religious Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience in Southern California; 6. The Third World in Los Angeles: A Metaphor Within a Metaphor; Part III: Southern California's Projection into the World
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Global Networks, Civil Society, and the Transformation of the Urban Core in Quanzhou, China8. Exporting the Dream: Hollywood Cinema and Latin American Suburbia; 9. Orange County, Java: Hybridity, Social Dualism, and an Imagined West; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; About the Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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