GLOBALIZATION,CULTURAL IDENTITIES, and MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Media of Culture and the Culture of the Media -- The Printing Press and the Internet:From a Culture of Memory to a Culture of Attention -- Globalization and the Experience of Culture:The Resilience of Nationhood -- Transcultural Narrations of the Local:Taiwanese Cinema Between Utopia and Heterotopia -- Garifuna Song, Groove Locale and "World-Music" Mediation -- The Thousand Faces of Xena: Transculturality through Multi-Identity -- Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation -- How to Get Rid of China: Ethnicity, Memory, and Trauma in Gao Xingjian's Novel One Man's Bible -- Film and Music, or Instabilities of National Identity -- The Cinematic Support to National(istic) Mythology: The Italian Peplum 1910-1930 -- Their Master's Voice? The Coverage of Intifada II onIsraeli Television -- Drifted Liberties and Diffracted Identities?: Algerian Audiences and the "Parabola" -- The Right to Be Different: Photographic Discourse and Cultural Identity in Hungary -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.