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Autore: | Kooijman Jaap |
Titolo: | Fabricating the absolute fake [[electronic resource] ] : America in contemporary pop culture / / Jaap Kooijman |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - United States |
Popular culture - Netherlands | |
Civilization - American influences | |
Soggetto geografico: | Netherlands Civilization American influences |
Classificazione: | MS 7850 |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Fabricating the Absolute Fake |
ISBN: | 1-281-78769-8 |
9786611787691 | |
90-485-0121-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996204158603316 |
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