Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements.

Part I: The Global Institution of Television:.

1. Modernity and Global Television.

2. What is Global Television?.

Part II: Primetime Goes Global: Programmes and Audiences:.

3: Global Soaps and Global News.

4. Television and Global Audiences.

5. Television, Identity and Global Audiences.

6. The Global and the Local: Cultural Imperialism.

7. Conclusion: The Future of Global Television?.

Index.

About the Author

Christopher Barker is the author of Global Television: An Introduction, published by Wiley.

Reviews

"At last, here is a really stimulating and carefully organised new book which theorises the interpenetration of the medium of television with public and private culture in the age of globalisation, offering some clear thinking while shuffling into a single pack the whole range of postmodern ideas." Anthony Smith, Times Higher Education Supplement