Americanization and Anti-americanism : : The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945 / / ed. by Alexander Stephan.

The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer an...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: POLITICS OF CULTURE
  • Anti-Americanism and Americanization
  • Counter-Americanism and Critical Currents in West German Reconstruction 1945-1960: The German Lesson Confronts the American Way of Life
  • Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German Images of America in the Late 1960s
  • PART 2: POPULAR CULTURE
  • Resisting Boogie-Woogie Culture, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art: German Highbrow Objections to the Import of “American” Forms of Culture, 1945-1965
  • From Nightmare to Model? Why German Broadcasting Became Americanized
  • Learning from America: Reconstructing “Race” in Postwar Germany
  • PART 3: FILM
  • Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: Whose Memory Is It?
  • Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: On the DEFA Berlin Films
  • German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror
  • PART 4: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Double Crossings: The Reciprocal Relationship between American and European Culture in the Twentieth Century
  • Anti-Americanism and Anti-Modernism in Europe: Old and Recent Versions
  • California Blue: Americanization as Self-Americanization
  • Awkward Relations: American Perceptions of Europe, European Perceptions of America
  • PART 5: OUTLOOK
  • Crisis or Cooperation? The Transatlantic Relationship at a Watershed
  • Germans and Americans: Understanding and Managing Change
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index