About the Book: Screen Culture-A Global History
In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social,
economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive
examination of screen media and screen culture globally-from film and television
to computers and smart phones-as they have evolved through the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Drawing on an enormous trove of research on the USA,
Britain, France, Egypt, West Africa, India, China, and other nations, Butsch
tells the stories of how media have developed in these nations and what global
forces linked them. He assesses the global ebb and flow of media hegemony and
the cultural differences in audiences use