Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
ISBN 978-1-943208-92-0 (pbk); 978-1-943208-93-7 (pdf)
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin America to Indigenous film and media from the US and Canada. Media studies courses, particularly introductory courses, are often narrowly focused on US and Western European canons. Instructors for introductory media studies courses wishing to expand the offerings in their curricula will find in these essays new ways of approaching foundational concepts and issues in the field, including globalization, social difference, and diverse media cultures. Scholars wishing to expand their research into specific media forms or representational issues can also turn to these case studies for approaches from beyond the US. By including a variety of media and several geographical areas, the collection introduces readers to the formal, technological, and cultural diversity of global media studies." (Publisher description)
Introduction: What Is an Atlas of Global Media? / Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, 1
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL LINEAGES AND FLOWS
1. The World’s Most Dangerous Selfies: Post-Soviet Hijinks and the Attractions of New Media [Ukraine] / Maria Corrigan, 17
2. Sobre las Olas: Sheet Music, Radio Broadcasting, and the Popularization of a Mexican Waltz / Sonia Robles, 35
3. Secret Garden: The Fantastic, Melodrama, and Disenchantment in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han, 46
PART II: THE GLOBAL TENSIONS IN THE LOCAL
4. Beautiful Desolation: Finding Apartheid in South Africa’s Video Game Futures / Rachel Lara van der Merwe, 61
5. Up North: The Re-Narration of Northeast Nigeria [About the Nigerian film 'Up North', 2018] / Añulika Agina and Anthony Adah, 77
6. Santa & Andrés: The New, The Old and The Queer in Postsocialist Cuban Cinema / David Tenorio, 91
PART III: TRANSMEDIA FIGURATIONS
7. A Necklace of Songs: Transmediating Hindi Film Music / Kuhu Tanvir, 109
8. O’odham Dances: Soundscapes and Landscapes of Indigenous Resurgence [Arizona, USA, and Mexico] / Angelica Marie Lawson, 120
PART IV: INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS IN GLOBAL MEDIA
9. Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo: Discomfort at Elderly Women’s Intimacies [Mexico] / Lilia Adriana Pérez Limón, 133
10. PeaceMaker: Simulating Settler-Colonialism and Subaltern Gaming [simulating the Israeli–Palestinian conflict] / Meryem Kamil, 145
11. Heritage Minutes: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Peacemaker [Canada] / Anna Shah Hoque, 157
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL LINEAGES AND FLOWS
1. The World’s Most Dangerous Selfies: Post-Soviet Hijinks and the Attractions of New Media [Ukraine] / Maria Corrigan, 17
2. Sobre las Olas: Sheet Music, Radio Broadcasting, and the Popularization of a Mexican Waltz / Sonia Robles, 35
3. Secret Garden: The Fantastic, Melodrama, and Disenchantment in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han, 46
PART II: THE GLOBAL TENSIONS IN THE LOCAL
4. Beautiful Desolation: Finding Apartheid in South Africa’s Video Game Futures / Rachel Lara van der Merwe, 61
5. Up North: The Re-Narration of Northeast Nigeria [About the Nigerian film 'Up North', 2018] / Añulika Agina and Anthony Adah, 77
6. Santa & Andrés: The New, The Old and The Queer in Postsocialist Cuban Cinema / David Tenorio, 91
PART III: TRANSMEDIA FIGURATIONS
7. A Necklace of Songs: Transmediating Hindi Film Music / Kuhu Tanvir, 109
8. O’odham Dances: Soundscapes and Landscapes of Indigenous Resurgence [Arizona, USA, and Mexico] / Angelica Marie Lawson, 120
PART IV: INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS IN GLOBAL MEDIA
9. Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo: Discomfort at Elderly Women’s Intimacies [Mexico] / Lilia Adriana Pérez Limón, 133
10. PeaceMaker: Simulating Settler-Colonialism and Subaltern Gaming [simulating the Israeli–Palestinian conflict] / Meryem Kamil, 145
11. Heritage Minutes: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Peacemaker [Canada] / Anna Shah Hoque, 157
