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Power of
Images and Culture Wars
•Culture wars and real wars exacerbated by media
–From France to Islamic countries—trying to keep American media/culture out…
•Japan greedily absorbs American culture, modifies it and feeds it back, while traditional elements try to preserve Japanese culture
–Anime (turned American comic books into their own medium, now widely read/viewed-as-animation in the US)