CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS -- 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media -- 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America -- 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples -- 4. Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet -- II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES -- 5. Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject? -- 6. Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India -- 7. The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity -- 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize -- III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS -- 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis -- 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera -- 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space -- IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION -- 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places -- 13. Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look -- 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood -- 15. Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere -- V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY -- 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria -- 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture -- 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images -- 19. Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali -- 20. A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age -- CONTRIBUTORS.

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