CMNS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anthony Giddens, Cultural Globalization, Mahima Dharma
15 Sep 2018
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The intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. (anthony giddens) Describes the way countries and people all around the world interact and integrate. The emergence of and continued dominance of the global media industry. The global reach of disney and time warner. Brings other countries in direct contact with western media. Cultural globalization thesis a world interconnected by an electronic nervous system which is the media. Without the global village, there would be little knowledge of what the other. Part of a larger cinema known as hindi cinema or indywood. Hindi language film industry and the largest in the world based on film production. Uses colloquial dialect of hindi-urdu and elements of hinglish. Entertainment, educational, hard hitting, realistic, large variety of genres. Bollywood however, produce more movies and sell more than 4 billion tickets yearly, almost twice more than hollywood.
