Screen Culture: A Global History (New Directions in Media History) - Softcover

Butsch, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745653251 ISBN 13: 9780745653259

Publisher: Polity, 2019

Synopsis

In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive examination of screen media and screen culture globally – from film and television to computers and smart phones – as they have evolved through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Drawing on an enormous trove of research on the USA, Britain, France, Egypt, West Africa, India, China, and other nations, Butsch tells the stories of how media have developed in these nations and what global forces linked them. He assesses the global ebb and flow of media hegemony and the cultural differences in audiences' use of media. Comparisons across time and space reveal two linked developments: the rise and fall of American cultural hegemony, and the consistency among audiences from different countries in the way they incorporate screen entertainments into their own cultures.

Screen Culture offers a masterful, integrated global history that invites media scholars to see this landscape in a new light. Deeply engaging, the book is also suitable for students and interested general readers.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Butsch is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Rider University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745653251
• ISBN 13: 9780745653259
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336