Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation : : American Culture in Western Europe and Japan /

Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation : : American Culture in Western Europe and Japan / / ed. by Heide Fehrenbach, Uta G. Poiger.

American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bognar, Botond,
Condry, Ian,
Ellwood, David W.,
Fehrenbach, Heide,
Krieger, Peter,
Kuisel, Richard F.,
Minganti, Franco,
Nolan, Mary,
Petterson, James,
Poiger, Uta G.,
Tatsumi, Takayuki,
HerausgeberIn:
Fehrenbach, Heide,
Poiger, Uta G.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION Americanization Reconsidered
  • Part I TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERNITIES
  • 1. America in the German Imagination
  • 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe
  • 3. Surface above All? American Influence on Japanese Urban Space
  • Part II DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL
  • 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945–1965
  • 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions
  • Part III TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
  • 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities
  • 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering
  • 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music
  • Part IV DE-ESSENTIALIZING “AMERICA” AND THE “NATIVE”
  • 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany
  • 10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization
  • 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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