1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0008274

Titolo

Diffusione e caratteristiche dei gruppi di piccole e medie imprese nelle aree distrettuali : dove va il distretto industriale? / a cura di Francesco Brioschi, Giulio Cainelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Giuffrè, 2001

ISBN

88-14-08743-1

Descrizione fisica

X, 287 p. ; 22 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144384903321

Autore

Kooijman Jaap

Titolo

Fabricating the absolute fake : America in contemporary pop culture / / Jaap Kooijman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786611787691

9781281787699

1281787698

9789048501212

9048501210

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

American Studies

Classificazione

MS 7850

Disciplina

306.1

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States

Popular culture - Netherlands

Civilization - American influences

Netherlands Civilization American influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 hybridized American or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies elements of postmodern theory-Jean Baudrillard's hyperreality and Umberto Eco's "absolute fake", among others-to this globally mediated American pop culture in order to examine both the phenomenon itself and its specific appropriation in the Netherlands, as evidenced by diverse cultural icons like the Elvis-inspired crooner Lee Towers, the Moroccan-Dutch white rapper Ali B, musical tributes to an assassinated politician, and the Dutch reality soap opera scene.   A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-September 11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American popular culture.   "A brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable work of cultural critique. . . . Jaap Kooijman takes seemingly exhausted concepts like "Americanization" and turns them on their head."-Anne McCarthy, New York University