UID:
almahu_9949280952902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (182 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-78769-8
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9786611787691
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90-485-0121-0
Serie:
American Studies
Inhalt:
From the pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's daytime talk show to the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola empire, American "pop" culture-and the contemporary films, television programs, and cultural objects that determine it-dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies elements of postmodern theory-Jean Baudrillard's hyperreality and Umberto Eco's "absolute fake", among others-to this globally mediated American pop culture in order to examine both the phenomenon itself and its specific appropriation in the Netherlands, as evidenced by diverse cultural icons like the Elvis-inspired crooner Lee Towers, the Moroccan-Dutch white rapper Ali B, musical tributes to an assassinated politician, and the Dutch reality soap opera scene. A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-September 11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American popular culture. "A brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable work of cultural critique. . . . Jaap Kooijman takes seemingly exhausted concepts like "Americanization" and turns them on their head."-Anne McCarthy, New York University
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Fabricating the Absolute Fake --
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Chapter One: We Are the World: America's Dominance in Global Pop Culture --
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Chapter Two: The Oprahifi cation of 9/ 11: America as Imagined Community --
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Chapter Three: The Desert of the Real: America as Hyperreality --
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Chapter Four: Americans We Never Were: Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism --
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Chapter Five: The Dutch Dream: Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity --
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Conclusion: Let's Make Things Better --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-5356-492-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
DOI:
10.1515/9789048501212
URL:
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