This discussion during class had my mind racing trying to figure out where I stand on this issue of sexism within comic books and movies. As I watched the first video, I found myself really agreeing with what he had to say and how he was almost defending the artists of comic books, especially concerning […]
Archives for March 2015
Cultural Imperialism as explored through Iron Chef
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 Unit 3 Week 10
In cultural terms, the world-wide distribution of Western-made products- together with the ideological values these are often said to carry – is seen by many to pose a very real threat to the identity of local, regional and national cultures. It is perhaps the logic of globalization that pushes towards standardization and homogenization of markets, goods […]
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//Dubbing
The article by Jonathan Gray illustrated the idea of cultural imperialism. To put this term simply, cultural imperialism is when one culture dominates – they have all the power and influence and impose themselves onto other cultures. By using The Simpsons as a way to criticize how the view of an opposing-America is seen in […]
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 […]
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