Fatima Bhutto looks at three cultural industries that have become global powers largely outside the old Anglo-American centre.

Within, there's primarily Bollywood, Turkish television drama and Korean pop. She asks what their enormous audiences reveal about the changing geography of desire, aspiration and cultural authority, moving between India, Turkey, South Korea and the places where these forms are received with sometimes startling intensity.

The book works as reportage, cultural criticism and a study of soft power. Bhutto is keen on unravelling the emotional economies they offer, the forms of modernity they stage, the ideas of family, romance, masculinity, glamour and national identity they circulate. We live in a world where  cultural influence no longer flows in one direction, Hollywood remains powerful, but it is no longer the only machine making dreams at scale.

Columbia Global Reports, New York, 2019. First edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear; internally clean and sound.