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<p>* Are cultural identities socially constructed?<br> * How are race, nation, sex and gender constructed and represented on television?<br> * What is the impact of globalization on television and cultural identities?</p> <p>This introductory text examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. It is a wide-ranging volume, exploring many of the central cultural issues in contemporary cultural studies, such as media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics and identity - perhaps the topic of cultural studies over the past decade. At the core of the book are two critical arguments - that television is a proliferating resource for the construction of cultural identity, and that cultural identity is not a fixed essential 'thing' but a contingent social construction to which language is central.</p> <p>The book will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the fields of cultural studies, communications, media studies and sociology, with a wider appeal to those with an interest in the television industry. Key concepts are introduced and explained for those new to c

Author

Barker, Chris, 1955-

Publisher

Buckingham ; Philadelphia, Penn: Open University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780335199549

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24