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Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture - Revised Edition: American Studies

Autor Jaap Kooijman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2013
In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce “Americanness.” Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama’s global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world over.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789089645593
ISBN-10: 9089645594
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
Seria American Studies


Notă biografică

Jaap Kooijman is associate professor of media and culture and American studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Cuprins

Introduction
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
1. We Are the World
America’s Dominance in Global Pop Culture
2. The Oprahification of 9/11
America as Imagined Community
3. The Desert of the Real
America as Hyperreality
4. Americans We Never Were
Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism
5. The Dutch Dream
Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity
6. Yes We Can, This Is It
America and Celebrity Culture
Conclusion
Let’s Make Things Better
Afterword
Teaching the Absolute Fake
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“A brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable work of cultural critique, this book teaches us that interpreting the behemoth of American popular culture does not have to involve a polarized choice between naïve celebration and disgusted condemnation. Kooijman takes seemingly exhausted concepts like Americanization and turns them on their head . . . he demonstrates just how flexible the signifiers of Americanness can be when they circulate globally, materializing in surprising forms across film, television, and other popular media.”