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Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Culture Industry


October 20, 2016


Book Launch, Lecture and Discussion
with Tanner Mirrlees, Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology,
and Scott Forsyth, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Arts, York University.

Presented by The Centre for Social Justice, Global Labour Research Centre, Socialist Project, and the Union for Democratic Communication

From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, it's clear that the US national security state is a dominant force in global media culture. How and why is this so?

Please join a discussion about the production, profit and power of US Empire's culture industry - a nexus between the US state and globalizing media firms and the source of entertainments that promote US Empire as a way of life around the world.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Venue: Beit Zatoun Cultural center
Location: 612 Markham St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.beitzatoun.org/event/hearts-and-mines-the-us-empires-culture-industry/
Categories: Arts & Culture

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