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Autore: | Malchow Howard L |
Titolo: | Special relations : the Americanization of Britain? / / H.L. Malchow |
Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48/241073 |
Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - History - 20th century |
Social movements - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Civilization American influences |
Great Britain Civilization 1945- | |
Great Britain Relations United States | |
United States Relations Great Britain | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Mayfair modern -- pt. 2. The counterculture -- pt. 3. Freedom -- pt. 4. Postmodern, antimodern. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950's to the 1970's. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical era of mass tourism, professional exchange, and media globalization-while acknowledging an important degree of cultural hybridity and circularity. The study begins with the influence of American modernism in the built environment and in ""Swinging London"" generally, and then moves to |
Titolo autorizzato: | Special relations |
ISBN: | 0-8047-7783-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811194203321 |
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