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The author firstly examines cultural and historical potentials of Russia, analysing them in their positive and negative aspects. Western ability to fully confront contemporary problems is then challenged through a brief account of the cultural crisis in its society in order to establish, through an analysis of the specific reception of that crisis in Russia, whether it can offer new, fresh and/or different solutions to global problems. Finally, basic Russian cultural and political values are depicted through the history of their actions globally and the power and significance of those values is defended as exceptionally fruitful for appliance to the contemporary socio-political situation, as to the challenges that lay before the global society in the future.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Screen Culture History -- What is Screen Culture? -- Context: Place and Situation -- Life with and without Screen Media -- Nationalism, Colonialism, and Global Media -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- 1: American Cinema to World War I -- Historical Context -- Early Moving Picture Exhibition -- Urban Nickelodeons and Neighborhood Audiences -- Film Text and Culture -- Screen Culture and Culture -- Notes -- 2: Global Cinema, 1900-1920 -- Early European Film Culture -- Colonial Contexts -- Notes -- 3: The Hollywood Studio Era, 1910s-1940s -- What was Hollywood? -- 'The Product': A Normative Message -- Movie Palaces and Neighborhood Houses -- Notes -- 4: Global Hollywood, 1920s-1950s -- American Film Hegemony -- European Movie-Goers -- Colonial and Post-Colonial Markets: Africa, Asia, Latin America -- Indigenous Film: India, China, and Egypt -- Patterns and Trends -- Notes -- 5: Western Television in the Broadcast Era, 1945-1990 -- Living in Fifties America -- British Television -- European Television and Nationalism -- Comparisons -- Notes -- 6: Post-Colonial Television, 1960s-1990s -- Protecting National Sovereignty -- Latin America: Brazil and Telenovela -- Indian Telenovelas -- Muslim Television: Middle East, North, and West Africa -- China: Late Development -- Global Patterns -- Notes -- 7: Digital Media in the New Millennium -- Digitization -- Technical Convergence -- Industry Convergence -- Surveillance -- Notes -- 8: Using Digital Media -- Mobile Mediated Interaction -- Mediating Collective Action -- Notes -- 9: Globalized Media in the New Millennium -- Access and Affordability -- Hollywood Hegemony -- Multi-Centered Globalization -- Local Audiences: Nollywood -- Glocal: Same but Different -- Notes.

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