Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan /: American culture in Western Europe and Japan. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger.
• Other Names: Fehrenbach, Heide; Poiger, Uta G, 1965-
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors Introduction: Americanization Reconsidered; Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger PART I: TWENTIETH-CENUTRY MODERNITIES Chapter 1. America in the German Imagination; Mary Nolan Chapter 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe; David W. Ellwood Chapter 3. Surface Above All? American Influence on Japanese; Botond Bognar PART II: DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL Chapter 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945-1965; Heide Fehrenbach Chapter 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions; James Petterson PART III: TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY Chapter 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities; Uta G. Poiger Chapter 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering; Franco Minganti Chapter 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music; Ian Condry PART IV: DE-ESSENTIALIZING "AMERICA" AND THE "NATIVE" Chapter 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany; Peter Krieger Chapter 10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization; Richard F. Kuisel Chapter 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism; Takayuki Tatsumi Select Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (xl, 258 pages)
• Subjects: 303.48/24073; Popular culture -- United States; Popular culture -- Europe; Popular culture -- Japan; Civilization -- American influences; Popular culture; Culturele invloeden; Receptie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Europe -- Civilization -- American influences; Japan -- Civilization -- American influences; Europe; Japan; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785330049; 1785330047
• Related ISBNs: 1571811079; 9781571811073; 1571811087; 9781571811080
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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