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Title:

Media, sex, violence, and drugs in the global village / edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiii, 293 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mass media--Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Sex in mass media.
Violence in mass media.
Drugs and mass media.
Developing countries--Western influences.--Western influences.
East and West.
Aspectos sociales.--Aspectos sociales.
Medios de comuniación y cultura.
Influencias occidentales.--Civilización--Influencias occidentales.
Médias--Aspect social.
Médias et culture.
Sexualité dans les médias.
Violence dans les médias.
Drogues et médias.
Occidentalisation.
Pays en voie de développement--Influence occidentale.--Influence occidentale.
Massamedia.
Ontwikkelingslanden.
Sociale aspecten.

Other Authors:

Kamalipour, Yahya R.
Rampal, Kuldip R., 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The paradox of media effects / Thomas J. Roach -- Social implications of media globalization / Nancy Snow -- A global perspective on Internet sexual content: nations' values as predictors of Internet web sex pages / James A. Danowski and Junho H. Choi -- North America's cult of sex and violence / Rose Dyson -- Drugs in television, movies, and music videos / George Gerbner -- The mass media and the health of adolescents in the United States / Jane D. Brown and Elizabeth M. Witherspoon -- Covering his not-so private parts: the multinational and multicultural struggle to regulate the broadcasts of shock-jock Howard Stern / Neil Nemeth -- Cultural bane or sociological boon? impact of satellite television on urban youth in India / Kuldip R. Rampal -- Pornography, perceptions of sex, and sexual callousness: a cross-cultural comparison / Zhou He -- A lethal combination: sex and violence in the world of Korean television / Jong G. Kang -- Women, media, and violence in the new South Africa: disciplining the mind (the body is irrelevant) / Arnold S. de Beer and Karen Ross -- Media, violence, drugs, and sex in Turkey / Alev Yemenici -- Media, sex, violence, and drugs: Egypt's experience / Hussein Y. Amin and Hanzada Fikry -- Sex, violence, and terrorism in Hollywood's international political imagery / M. Mehdi Semanti -- Between globalization and localization: television, tradition, and modernity / Marwan M. Kraidy.

ISBN:

9780742500617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742500616 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742500600 (alk. paper)
0742500608 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2001019882

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)