Description: Uses Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China to explore how media coverage is guided by ideological struggle.
Review Quotes:
"This exciting and innovative study of a major media event shows that media elites reproduce the assumptions and interests dominant in their country and in international global events take the position of constructing discursive contestations of other countries, while promoting their own country's interests and agendas." - Douglas Kellner, author of Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern
"Global Media Spectacle is an absorbing book about news stories, beautifully written and packed with fascinating details and rich insights. The authors sift through a mountain of media texts and weave a diverse body of material into an engaging narrative. The quotes from the news media are both colorful and illustrative." - Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University