Geography 2142A/B Lecture Notes - Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy, Inglourious Basterds, Danish Minority Of Southern Schleswig
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Films, television, music, cartoons, the internet and radio. Images circulate within and beyond national political cultures. Images of political life are fused with the mass media. How do images of global politics circulate in television, radio, internet, etc. Topics of popular geopolitics: themes, films, and cartoons. Films: the green zone, the hurt locker, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. Films can be used to explore how the practical geopolitics of american foreign policy finds expression in the popular geopolitics of hollywood, and the larger world of the cold war. Selected framings such as the war on terror or the war on drugs favour certain understandings at the expense of others. A brand is a trademark: a name, symbol, logo, or other item used to mark a product or maker. This distinguishes it from other companies and their products. In geopolitics, branding is understood as the representation of people or places: e. g. -countries.