Satellites, cables, Walkmans, video cassette recorders, CDs, and other marvels of entertainment technology have created the arteries through which modern entertainment conglomerates are homogenising global culture. With the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the embrace of free market ideologies in former communist countries, literally the entire planet is being wired into music, movies, news, TV programmes, and other cultural products that originate primarily in the film and recording studios of the…
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