Table of Contents

Introduction by Eric Heikkila and Rafael Pizarro Southern California as a Nexus to the World Globalization, Digitalization, and Hollywood by Michael Clough The Wolf at the Door: Hollywood and the Film Market in China by Stanley Rosen Making the Most of Southern California's Global Engagement by Gregory F. Treverton Southern California as a Microcosm of the World Religious Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience in Southern California by Donald E. Miller, John Miller, and Grace Dyrness The Third World in Los Angeles; A Metaphor Within a Metaphor by Tridib Banerjee and Niraj Verma Southern California's Projection into the World Global Networks, Civil Society, and the Transformation of the Urban Core in Quanzhou, China by Michael Leaf and Daniel Abramson Exporting the Dream: Hollywood Cinema and Latin American Suburbia by Rafael Orange County, Java: Hybridity, Social Darwinism, and an Imagined West by Robert Cowherd and Eric Heikkila

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Provides a panoramic and stimulating perspective on the multiplexed connectivities between global phenomena and the Southern California experience.

About the Author

ERIC J. HEIKKILA is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development. RAFAEL PIZARRO is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California.