04029nam 2200697 a 450 991014438490332120200520144314.01-281-78769-8978661178769190-485-0121-010.1515/9789048501212(CKB)1000000000579028(EBL)419907(OCoLC)568122271(SSID)ssj0000152684(PQKBManifestationID)11150626(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152684(PQKBWorkID)10340447(PQKB)11313180(DE-B1597)532762(OCoLC)302391268(DE-B1597)9789048501212(Au-PeEL)EBL419907(CaPaEBR)ebr10302793(CaONFJC)MIL178769(MiAaPQ)EBC419907(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38722(EXLCZ)99100000000057902820091014d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFabricating the absolute fake America in contemporary pop culture /Jaap Kooijman1st ed.Amsterdam Amsterdam University Pressc20081 online resource (182 p.)American StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.90-5356-492-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexFrom 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 Popular cultureUnited StatesPopular cultureNetherlandsCivilizationAmerican influencesNetherlandsCivilizationAmerican influencesPopular culturePopular cultureCivilizationAmerican influences.306.1MS 7850rvkKooijman Jaap800928MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910144384903321Fabricating the Absolute Fake1802273UNINA