Mass media and free trade : NAFTA and the cultural industries / Emile G. McAnany, Kenton T. Wilkinson, editors.

Other author McAnany, Emile G.
Other author Wilkinson, Kenton T. (Kenton Todd)
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 1996.
Descriptionxv, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Emile G. McAnany and Kenton T. Wilkinson -- Culture and trade: some theoretical and practical considerations / John Sinclair -- Television and film in a freer international trade environment: US dominance and Canadian responses / Colin Hoskins, Adam Finn, and Stuart McFadyen -- Other people's fictions: cultural appropriation, cultural integrity, and international media strategies / Horace Newcomb -- As the world turns: television soap operas and global media culture / Robert C. Allen -- Will nationalism be bilingual? / Carlos Monsivais -- North Americans or Latin Americans? The redefinition of Mexican identity and the Free Trade Agreements / Nestor Garcia Canclini.
Contents Media reception on the Mexican border with the United States / Jose Carlos Lozano -- US-Mexico border as post-NAFTA Mexico / Eduardo Barrera -- Walking on a tightrope: the markets of cultural products in Quebec / Claude Martin -- There goes the neighborhood: Montreal's television market and free trade / Roger de la Garde -- U.S. best-sellers in French Quebec and English Canada / Jacques Lemieux and Denis Saint-Jacques -- Cultural exemptionalism revisited: Quebec music industries in the face of free trade / Line Grenier -- Mass communication, intellectual property rights, international trade, and the popular music industry / Steve Jones -- Copyright, contract, the cultural industries, and NAFTA / Keith Acheson and Christopher J. Maule.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96010222
ISBN0292751982 (alk. paper)
ISBN0292751990 (pbk. : alk. paper)