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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467236603321

Autore

Kemm J. R.

Titolo

Health promotion : ideology, discipline, and specialism / / John Kemm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-178227-0

0-19-102334-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

613.0941

Soggetti

Health promotion - Great Britain

Health promotion - Government policy - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

This text is an exploration of the theoretical and practical difficulties that the field of health promotion faces and how it might develop in the future. It argues that health promotion has a vital contribution to make to the health of populations.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996204158603316

Autore

Kooijman Jaap

Titolo

Fabricating the absolute fake [[electronic resource] ] : America in contemporary pop culture / / Jaap Kooijman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-78769-8

9786611787691

90-485-0121-0

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