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By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous 'culture bomb' by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on the other. All the while, official imaginings of television as an educational, national utility clashed with public speculations about popular entertainment and commercial content. This article traces the cultural pressures, political anxieties, public speculations and industry marketing campaigns that accompanied the initial planning stages and establishment of an Israeli educational television service. In particular, it illustrates how conceptions of television galvanized a national debate over cultural taste, national identity, political ideology and Israeli differentiation within the Arab world.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Contemporary feminism: editors' introduction -- SECTION I Ways of being -- 1 Taking exceptions seriously: essentialism, constructionism, and the proliferation of particularities -- 2 "Stories are data with soul": lessons from black feminist epistemology -- 3 "Does feminism have a generation gap?" Blogging, millennials and the hip hop generation -- 4 Too soon for post-feminism: the ongoing life of patriarchy in neoliberal America -- 5 Lost in translation: challenging (white, monolingual feminism's) < -- choice> -- with justicia reproductiva -- 6 The feminist frontier: on trans and feminism -- SECTION II Ways of living -- 7 Everyday life studies and feminism -- 8 Making culture and doing feminism -- 9 Surveillance is a feminist issue -- 10 Hookup culture and higher education -- 11 Circling back: electronic literature and material feminism -- SECTION III Ways in -- 12 Gender and schooling: progress, persistent inequalities, and possible solutions -- 13 Why we need feminist game studies -- 14 Acting out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum -- 15 Can't I just be a filmmaker? Women's and feminist film festivals' resurgence in a postfeminist world -- SECTION IV Ways of contesting -- 16 Women organized against sexual harassment: protesting sexual violence on campus, then and now -- 17 Online feminism: global phenomenon, local perspective (on ASPEKT organization and online feminism in Czechoslovak context) -- 18 Arab women's feminism(s), resistance(s), and activism(s) within and beyond the "Arab Spring": potentials, limitations, and future prospects -- 19 Pussy Riot: a feminist band lost in history and translation -- 20 None of this is new (media): feminisms in the social media age.

A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Globalization and Local Identities -- 1. Trance-Formations: Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism in Youth Culture -- 2. Making Transnational Vietnamese Music: Sounds of Home and Resistance -- 3. Planet Bollywood: Indian Cinema Abroad -- 4. Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America -- 5. "Pappy's house": "Pop" Culture and the Revaluation of a Filipino American "Sixty-Cents" in Guam -- Part II: Cultural Legacy and Memories -- 6. "Within Each Crack/A Story": The Political Economy of Queering Filipino American Pasts -- 7. "A Woman Is Nothing": Valuing the Modern Chinese Woman's Epic Journey to the West -- 8. Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Ethnic Stardom and the (Dis)Orientalized Romantic Couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown -- 9. Whose Paradise? Hawai'i, Desire, and the Global-Local Tensions of Popular Culture -- 10. Miss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America -- 11. How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods -- Part III. Ethnicity and Identification -- 12. Bruce Lee in the Ghetto Connection: Kung Fu Theater and African Americans Reinventing Culture at the Margins -- 13. "Alllooksame"? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web -- 14. Guilty Pleasures: Keanu Reeves, Superman, and Racial Outing -- 15. Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop -- 16. Apu's Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents -- 17. Secret Asian Man: Angry Asians and the Politics of Cultural Visibility -- About the Contributors -- Index