LEADER 03950 am 22006733u 450 001 996204158603316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-78769-8 010 $a9786611787691 010 $a90-485-0121-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048501212 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579028 035 $a(EBL)419907 035 $a(OCoLC)568122271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152684 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150626 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152684 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10340447 035 $a(PQKB)11313180 035 $a(DE-B1597)532762 035 $a(OCoLC)302391268 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048501212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL419907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10302793 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL178769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC419907 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579028 100 $a20091014d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFabricating the absolute fake$b[electronic resource] $eAmerica in contemporary pop culture /$fJaap Kooijman 210 $aAmsterdam $cAmsterdam University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-5356-492-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Fabricating the Absolute Fake -- $tChapter One: We Are the World: America's Dominance in Global Pop Culture -- $tChapter Two: The Oprahifi cation of 9/ 11: America as Imagined Community -- $tChapter Three: The Desert of the Real: America as Hyperreality -- $tChapter Four: Americans We Never Were: Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism -- $tChapter Five: The Dutch Dream: Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity -- $tConclusion: Let's Make Things Better -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom 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 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zNetherlands 606 $aCivilization$xAmerican influences 607 $aNetherlands$xCivilization$xAmerican influences 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aCivilization$xAmerican influences. 676 $a306.1 686 $aMS 7850$2rvk 700 $aKooijman$b Jaap$0800928 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996204158603316 996 $aFabricating the Absolute Fake$91802273 997 $aUNISA