Media Studies A-Level
Postcolonial legacy of empire
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The legacy of empire to which cultural imperialism is linked in postcolonial and ethnicity theory, as Western media forms, languages and value systems circulate globally and can marginalise or displace local cultures.
Topics that use Postcolonial legacy of empire
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Belonging and exclusion
- Centre and periphery
- Cultural imperialism
- Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Imagined communities
- Marginalisation
- Media and collective identity
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