I am writing today in response to Mark Gallagher’s article “What’s So Funny About Iron Chef?” The first third of his article (up to the middle of page 3) is all stuff I can agree with, explanations of the premise of Iron Chef, descriptions of the set and characters, a little history on other Japanese […]
Cultural Imperialism
Gray states in his article, “Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global,” that the definition of cultural imperialism as a “process of social influence by which a nation imposes on other countries set beliefs, values, knowledge and behavioral norms. While he uses the example of the Simpsons, I believe that I have found another television show […]
Cultural Imperialism and Flow in Global Media
Approaching the topic of Cultural Imperialism’s presence in the media is a bit difficult to define concretely without taking in relative variables such as globalization, glocalization, hybridity, and cultural relativism that all work collectively to change global content to something that feels almost localized to that specific geographic and demographic niche. Despite these variables, even the […]
Cultural Imperialism
I found interests in this weeks reading about cultural imperialism. Jonathan Gray’s article, “Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global”, discusses the United States and it’s cultural imperialistic influence. Cultural imperialism is the influence a country has socially on other countries. The dominant country’s ideologies are inflicted on to another country’s (p. 129). This ideal of […]
Cultural Imperialism in Television
Cultural imperialism is meant to be a nation setting certain beliefs, values, norms, knowledge and lifestyle about other countries (Gray). There has been a way that America sets these cultural representations of other countries through the media that is being produced. The Simpsons does this, but to the representation of Americans and that is why other […]
Cultural Imperialism – Metástasis
On a trip to visit my mother’s homeland of Peru back in 2004, I understood the potential conflicts of culture that I was going to face. I travelled out with the family to Lima, the capital of Peru, and stayed at the house my mom grew up in. I was given the chance to meet […]
Iron Chef
The article “What’s So Funny about Iron Chef?” by Mark Gallagher analyzes the processes by which US media corporations “Americanized” non-Western media texts and the consequences of such translation strategies. The program allows “viewers to immerse themselves in a complex but accessible manifestation of East Asian culture”. The program’s narrative format and televisual style let […]
Cultural Imperialism
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 […]
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 […]