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Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations and global appeal. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Individual chapters explain: • the Chinese religious-philosophical background • Chinese uses in rural and urban areas • the history of Feng Shui's reinterpretation in the West • environmental perspectives and other issues
Feng shui. --- Divination --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Feng Shui --- superstition --- spiritual movement --- spirituality --- religion and society --- religion and culture --- Chinese religion --- Chinese philosophy --- the West --- cultural globalization
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L'histoire de la presse française est étudiée à la lumière des modèles médiatiques étrangers et de la mondialisation. L'analyse montre que les traditions journalistiques anglo-saxonne et française laissent fortement leur empreinte dans le paysage de la presse mondiale.
Press --- Journalism --- Mass media --- Presse --- Journalisme --- Médias --- History --- Influence --- Histoire --- --Europe --- --Amérique --- --XIXe s., --- Mondialisation --- --Press --- Globalization --- Contemporary press - Cultural globalization - Europe - North and South America --- Contemporary press --- Cultural globalization --- Europe --- North and South America --- 82:3 --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Médias --- Media, News --- Media, The --- News media --- Publicity --- Newspapers --- Periodicals --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Communication --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Fake news --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- XIXe s., 1801-1900 --- Press - History - 19th century --- Journalism - History - 19th century --- Mass media - Influence - History - 19th century --- Globalization - History - 19th century --- Amérique --- 19e siècle
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Motion picture industry --- Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Economic aspects --- Industrie --- Aspect économique --- Walt Disney Company --- Popular culture. --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Walt Disney Company. --- Walt Disney Pictures. --- Cinéma --- Aspect économique --- Walt Disney company. --- Economic aspects. --- US Cinema - Creation and Movie Business - Cultural Globalization - Capitalism. --- Industrie cinématographique --- États-Unis --- Hollywood (Calif.) --- Industrie cinématographique --- États-Unis
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What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the technological developments of the nineteenth century. The World in the Long Twentieth Century lays out a framework for understanding the fundamental factors that have shaped our world on a truly global scale, analyzing the historical trends, causes, and consequences of the key forces at work. Spanning the 1870s to the present, this book explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments. Students will learn to think about the past two centuries as a process, a series of political and economic upheavals, technological advances, and environmental transformations that have shaped the long twentieth century. "The World in the Long Twentieth Century presents an interpretation of the history of the world in the century and a half between the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. It identifies the most important forces shaping the interactions between world societies and regions, and the complex relationships between those forces and the events, ruptures, upheavals, and continuities they drove. The interactions between science and technology, economics, culture, and politics on the scale of world events and developments are analyzed, stressing the continuities and commonalities that made this entire period of some 150 years a coherent whole. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the broad dynamics of world developments--the global trends and interactions that determined the course of events both locally, in individual societies, and on a global scale, in the patterns of interactions between regions, countries, and societies. The book places the period of revolutions, wars, and genocides in the early twentieth century in the context of the longer-term development of the world economy, world population, imperial politics on a global scale, and world-wide social and cultural changes between ca. 1850 and ca. 2010. That explosive period, it shows, was a product of the rapid economic, cultural, and political globalization of the late nineteenth century; and it laid the groundwork for the even faster globalizations of the late twentieth."--
History, Modern --- World politics --- Globalization --- Civilization --- Social aspects. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- cold war. --- counterglobalization. --- cultural globalization. --- decolonization. --- economic globalization. --- financialization. --- free trade. --- global economy. --- globalization. --- high modernity. --- historians. --- imperialism. --- long 20th century. --- mass migrations. --- modern history. --- new world disorder. --- new world order. --- political globalization. --- political history. --- political science. --- population explosion. --- religious innovation. --- scientific technical revolution. --- welfare state. --- world developments. --- world history.
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Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also prime suspects in the death of reading. Or so alarming reports about our homogenous and dumbed-down culture would have it, but as Regionalism and the Reading Class shows, neither of these claims stands up under scrutiny-quite the contrary. Wendy Griswold draws on cases from Italy, Norway, and the United States to show that fans of books form their own reading class, with a distinctive demographic profile separate from the general public. This reading class is modest in size but intense in its literary practices. Paradoxically these educated and mobile elites work hard to put down local roots by, among other strategies, exploring regional writing. Ultimately, due to the technological, economic, and political advantages they wield, cosmopolitan readers are able to celebrate, perpetuate, and reinvigorate local culture. Griswold's study will appeal to students of cultural sociology and the history of the book-and her findings will be welcome news to anyone worried about the future of reading or the eclipse of place.
Reading --- Reading interests. --- Regionalism --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Interests, Reading --- Reader interest --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading habits --- Books and reading --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching --- Reading interests --- Social aspects --- Lecture --- Lecture, Goût de la --- Aspect social --- sociology, reader, literacy, classism, classist, status, region, regional, culture, cultural, globalization, internet, academic, scholarly, research, study, case, fieldwork, italy, norway, united states, america, europe, international, books, demographics, literary, literature, elite, writing, technology, technological, economics, economy, politics, political, cosmopolitan.
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How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise to a new creative industry: social media entertainment. Operating at the intersection of the entertainment and interactivity, communication and content industries, social media entertainment creators have harnessed these platforms to generate new kinds of content separate from the century-long model of intellectual property control in the traditional entertainment industry. Social media entertainment has expanded rapidly and the traditional entertainment industry has been forced to cede significant power and influence to content creators, their fans, and subscribers. Digital platforms have created a natural market for embedded advertising, changing the worlds of marketing and communication in their wake. Combined, these factors have produced new, radically shifting demands on the entertainment industry, posing new challenges for screen regimes, media scholars, industry professionals, content creators, and audiences alike.Stuart Cunningham and David Craig chronicle the rise of social media entertainment and its impact on media consumption and production. A massive, industry-defining study with insight from over 100 industry insiders, Social Media Entertainment explores the latest transformations in the entertainment industry in this time of digital disruption.
Social media --- Internet entertainment --- Internet entertainment industry --- Asian American creators. --- Facebook. --- IP control. --- Instagram. --- LGBTQ creators. --- Madison Avenue. --- Michelle Phan. --- NoCal. --- PewDiePie. --- Snapchat. --- SoCal. --- Twitter. --- Vlogbrothers. --- YouTube. --- authenticity. --- brand culture. --- content creators. --- copyright industry high-control regimes. --- cultural globalization. --- cultural imperialism. --- cultural politics. --- gameplay. --- live-streamers. --- live-streaming platforms. --- media globalization. --- media management. --- minority representation. --- new screen ecology. --- platform algorithms. --- platform regulatory action. --- precarious labor. --- professionalizing amateurs. --- screen industries. --- traditional screen ecology. --- vlogging.
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In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980's have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national frameworks, Curtin examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience that will include more viewers than in the United States and Europe combined. He draws on in-depth interviews with a diverse array of media executives plus a wealth of historical material to argue that this vast and increasingly wealthy market is likely to shake the very foundations of Hollywood's century-long hegemony. Playing to the World's Biggest Audience profiles the leading Chinese commercial studios and telecasters, and delves into the operations of Western conglomerates extending their reach into Asia. Advancing a dynamic and integrative theory of media capital, this innovative book explains the histories and strategies of screen enterprises that aim to become central players in the Global China market and offers an alternative perspective to recent debates about cultural globalization.
Motion picture industry. --- Motion pictures. --- Television broadcasting. --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Television broadcasting --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- business and industry. --- capitalism. --- capitalist paternalism. --- china. --- chinese commercial studios. --- chinese film. --- chinese media. --- chinese television. --- cold war. --- cultural globalization. --- cultural studies. --- east asian youth culture. --- economics. --- global china market. --- global chinese audience. --- globalization. --- history. --- hong kong cinema. --- hong kong. --- independent studios. --- infrastructure. --- media capital. --- media studies. --- multimedia. --- pan chinese studio system. --- screen industry. --- singapore. --- taiwan. --- world trade organization.
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