Lights, Camera, Africa

The emergence of a cultural and cinematic phenomenon in the early 1990's, known as Nigeria's booming film industry, "Nollywood", astonished many when it claimed the title of the third largest film industry in the world. It is evident with the rise and influence of these emerging film industries, such as Nollywood, the boundaries have become distinctively…

Present Day Parochialism

The internalisation of education accounts for the fourth largest export industry within Australia, in turn producing substantial and significant economic gains for the nation. However, "international education is more than a profit - making business. It is an educational and social experience", which unfortunately in Australia "...is not the rich intercultural experience it could be"…

Hollywoodisation

"While the media have become indeed globally interconnected, and programs and messages circulate in the global network, we are not living in a global village, but in customised cottages globally produced and locally distributed" (O'Shaughnessy 2012, p. 464). Some may argue the globalisation of communication, interconnectedness and the rise of the "global village" has disrupted…