Fabricating the Absolute Fake : : 'America' in Contemporary Pop Culture / / Jaap Kooijman.
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 hybr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fabricating the Absolute Fake
- Chapter One: We Are the World: America’s Dominance in Global Pop Culture
- Chapter Two: The Oprahifi cation of 9/ 11: America as Imagined Community
- Chapter Three: The Desert of the Real: America as Hyperreality
- Chapter Four: Americans We Never Were: Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism
- Chapter Five: The Dutch Dream: Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity
- Conclusion: Let’s Make Things Better
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index