As stated in Gray’s article, Cultural Imperialism is the “process of social influence by which a nation imposes on other countries its set beliefs, values, knowledge, and behavioral norms as well as its overall lifestyle.” Although the debate stands on whether or not cultural imperialism is still alive, there are a few different instances in […]
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Cultural Imperialism
In the article “Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global,” Jonathan Gray talks about how American culture has become global, which has been causing other cultures to become irrelevant or minimalized. This phenomenon can be explained by the sudden “revival” of cultural imperialism, (Harindranath, 2003) which was popular around the 1970s and 1980s. As defined by […]
What’s so funny about Iron Chef
The article I found interesting was “What’s So Funny About Iron Chef” by Mark Gallagher. He examines the TV show Iron Chef, which airs on Food Network, and how it illustrates Japanese culture to the American audience. I understand the conclusions that he came to due to his analysis of this show and other Food […]
Cultural Imperialism
According to the article, Cultural Imperialism ‘is the process of social influence by which a nation imposes on other countries set beliefs, values, knowledge, and behavioral norms, as well as its overall style of life.’ Grey refers to “The Simpsons” a lot as an example that is a comedy show in which depicts the ‘American life’. “The […]
Cultural Imperialism vs. Cultural Imperialism in Media
In Gray’s article, “Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global,” he argues that there is a difference between cultural imperialism and cultural imperialism of media. To me, I imagine cultural imperialism as one country imposing its world views, general ways of life, customs, morals, and values (to name a few) on another country that is easily […]
Cultural Imperialism
Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting and imposing one culture’s set of beliefs, values, norms, and experiences onto another less powerful culture. In his article, “Imagining America,” Jonathan Gray delves into cultural imperialism or “Americanization” in relation to media texts. In a mass communication context, Western media produces the most popular media because it […]
Cultural Imperial Prom?
The majority of my adolescents was spent in England. Even though I did not attend a public school while I was there, many of my friends did and as the years went by I was surprised to notice how something was becoming more of a staple amongst the secondary schools there. Something that has been […]
We Can Learn From South Park
Keeping up to current date events, people in media or limelight, or just a big dominating focus in our world we tend to go toward television when looking for assistance in directing us to enlightenment. The article Television Teaching: Parody, The Simpsons, and Media Literacy Education by Jonathon Gray, describes in great detail how a […]
Culture Imperialism
Jonathan Gray’s article interrogates the Americanization/cultural imperialism thesis’ presumptions about the textual encoding of America by examining both the TV program The Simpsons and its international viewers’ receptions. Gray introduced that the cultural imperialism thesis has ben questioned and revised, especially the key assumption that all America cultural products are encoded with a uniform attitude […]
Iron Chef
I found Gallagher’s “What’s so funny about Iron Chef?” article to be really interesting. It makes light of American television taking Japanese shows and voice dubbing over the media taken in a completely western English accent and completely disregarding the nationality of the characters in the show or movie. Right away, I thought of the […]