Mass media and free trade: NAFTA and the cultural industries

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Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Part One. Overview 1. Introduction (Emile G. Mcanany and Kenton T. Wilkinson) 2. Culture and Trade: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations (John Sinclair) Part Two. Dominance and Resistance 3. Television and Film in a Freer International Trade Environment: US Dominance and Canadian Responses (Colin Hoskins, Adam Finn, and Stuart Mcfadyen) 4. Other People's Fictions: Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Integrity, and International Media Strategies (Horace Newcomb) 5. As the World Turns: Television Soap Operas and Global Media Culture (Robert C. Allen) Part Three. Cultural Trade and Identity: Mexico 6. Will Nationalism be Bilingual? (Carlos Monsivais) 7. North Americans or Latin Americans? The Redefinition of Mexican Identity and the Free Trade Agreements (Nestor Garcia Canclini) 8. Media Reception on the Mexican Border with the United States (Jose Carlos Lozano) 9. The US-Mexico Border as Post-NAFTA Mexico (Eduardo Barrera) Part Four. Cultural Trade and Identity: Quebec 10. Walking on a Tightrope: The Markets of Cultural Products in Quebec (Claude Martin) 11. There Goes the Neighborhood: Montreal's Television Market and Free Trade (Roger De La Garde) 12. U.S. Best-Sellers in French Quebec and English Canada (Jacques Lemieux and Denis Saint-jacques) 13. Cultural Exemptionalism Revisited: Quebec Music Industries in the Face of Free Trade (Line Grenier) Part Five. Creativity and Control: Copyright and Contract 14. Mass Communication, Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade, and the Popular Music Industry (Steve Jones) 15. Copyright, Contract, the Cultural Industries, and NAFTA (Keith Acheson and Christopher J. Maule) Appendix A. The Policymakers' Roundtable Discussion Session Appendix B. The Industry Representatives' Roundtable Discussion Session Index