From your reading of the first half of the Sturken and Cartwright chapter, "The Global Flow of Visual Culture," provide a brief definition of globalization. What conditions, in terms of the sovereign nation-state, communication and transportation technologies, the movement of peoples and media "flow", does globalization entail? According to Sturken and Cartwright, how is the Bollywood industry since the 1990s illustrative of how our understanding of a "national" cinema is transformed in our current era of globalization?
Globalization can be reworded as the assimilation of cultures from all nations and races. This process has been fueled heavily by the expansion of technology, instant communication, and economic factors that allow regions to specialize in production of certain goods. Though we are far from fully assimilated, I feel this is a step in the right direction. More specifically focusing on technology, one can feasible go anywhere they want to (provided they have the money or means) within a day or two. In addition, one can communicate with someone instantly through various means of Internet based social networking, email, and cellular phones. Nobody is too far out of reach. An example supporting the notion globalization has occurred lies in Bollywood. Since the 1990s, much has changed and low-budget films with subtitles are not all that rare to find in the United States. Media has essentially become global, and nothing remains necessarily exclusive to a particular region of the planet other than their maintaining of their identity as non-American.
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