Blockbusters And Trade Wars: Popular Culture In A Globalized World.HM621 2005-041411 1-55365-108-1 Blockbusters and trade wars; popular culture in a globalized world. Grant, Peter S. and Chris Wood Chris Wood or Christopher Wood may refer to:
Douglas & McIntyre, [c]2004 454 p. $29.95 (pa) At the same time that globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation geometrically ge·o·met·ric also ge·o·met·ri·cal adj. 1. a. Of or relating to geometry and its methods and principles. b. Increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression. 2. expands the distribution of books, television programs, and other cultural products, the sources of expression are concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and it becomes harder and harder for small, quirky quirk n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. , independent producers to survive. This is the paradox explored by Canadians Grant, a leading communications lawyer, and Wood, a writer for national radio and print media. They investigate where and how cultural products are created, why they're different from other manufactured goods manufactured goods npl → manufacturas fpl; bienes mpl manufacturados manufactured goods npl → produits manufacturés , and why they must be treated differently. Of interest to anyone who makes, watches, listens to, analyzes, comments on, pays for, regulates, reviews, or participates in popular culture. |
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