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] ©2004 |
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