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Fredric Jameson
American
Critic
Born:
Apr 14
,
1934
Being
Culture
Globalization
National
Power
World
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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
Fredric Jameson
Power
Military
About
Economic
Talk
Globalization
Spreading
Referring
Influence
Might
Us
Really
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson
War
Home
Achievement
Writing
World
Made
Films
Aid
States
Markets
Secure
Various
Clause
Generally
Pushed
Since
Massive
Foreign
End
Dominance
Effort
Politically
Packages
United
United States
Second
Treaties
World War
Second World War
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
Fredric Jameson
You
Consider
Moreover
Globalization
Always
Nationalist
Being
Wants
Us
Interests
Agree
Universal
Resist
Thinks
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Fredric Jameson
Success
Game
Culture
Power
Sense
Bad
Imperialism
Mass
Global
Cultural
American
Often
Us
Interests
Reassuring
Downplay
Playing
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
Fredric Jameson
War
National
Defensive
France
Out
Imperialism
Onto
Countries
Particular
Most
Industries
Forced
Were
Cultural
American
Form
After
European
European Countries
Stands
Agreements
Binding
Film
Resistance
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Fredric Jameson
Best
Capitalism
Reality
Exploitation
Destructive
Must
Various
Neutralize
Particular
Force
Globalization
Test
West
Motor
Mode
Behind
Transform
Forms
Capacity
Then
Resistance
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
National
Corporate
Worrying
Markets
Locations
More
Structures
Feature
Cheaper
New
Global
Operations
Overseas
Labour
Transferring
Capacity
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