Handbook

The consumption (and re-creation) of rap in Japan, animated film in Kuala Lumpur and curry laksa in Melbourne are just a few of the examples of transnational cultural flows which are visible the world over. The mass electronic media of cinema, television, and the Internet have sped up the transnational flow of images of modernity and created local desires to consume cultures originating in distant places. This unit looks at the implications of globalisation for a variety of cultural phenomena, tracing transitions from local to global cultural practices. It looks at specific cases of local consumption of global cultures, including television, video games, popular music, fiction and comics, and the Internet.