Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : media of culture and the culture of the media / Natascha Gentz, Stefan Kramer
  • The printing press and the internet : from a culture of memory to a culture of attention / Aleida Assmann
  • Globalization and the experience of culture : the resilience of nationhood / Wimal Dissanayake
  • Transcultural narrations of the local : Taiwanese cinema between utopia and heterotopia / Stefan Kramer
  • Garifuna song, groove locale and "world-music" mediation / Michael C. Stone
  • The thousand faces of Xena : transculturality through multi-identity / Miriam Butt, Kyle Wohlmut
  • Literature/identity : transnationalism, narrative and representation / Arif Dirlik
  • How to get rid of China : ethnicity, memory, and trauma in Gao Xingjian's novel One man's bible / Natascha Gentz
  • Film and music, or instabilities of national identity / Roger Hillman
  • The cinematic support to national(istic) mythology : the Italian peplum 1910-1930 / Irmbert Schenk
  • Their master's voice? : the coverage of Intifada II on Israeli television / Tamar Liebes
  • Drifted liberties and diffracted identities? : Algerian audiences and the "parabola" / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
  • The right to be different : photographic discourse and cultural identity in Hungary / Peter Braun.