| Description |
xiv, 195 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
American culture in European metaphors : the West as will and conception -- High and low : the quest for cultural standards in America -- Film as a mechanical art : Hollywood in Holland -- Advertising : the world of disjointed attributes -- The fifth freedom and the commodification of civic virtue -- Mediated history : the Vietnam War as a media event -- Breathless : the French nouvelle vague and Hollywood -- Rap : the ultimate staccato culture -- Americanization : what are we talking about |
| Summary |
The Dutch scholar Rob Kroes argues that American culture is "modular," continually fragmenting, disassembling, and reassembling itself - and in the process creating something new. In a series of topical essays that show why he is one of Europe's leading authorities on American culture, Kroes probes trends in American advertising, the image of the Vietnam war in American films, the implications of American vernacular culture as represented in rap music, and other topics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index |
| Subject |
Americanization.
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Popular culture -- Europe.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Civilization -- American influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045643
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
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Europe -- Relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115002
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United States -- Relations -- Europe.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100079
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| LC no. |
95032455 |
| ISBN |
0252022009 (cloth : acid₋free paper) |
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0252065328 (paperback: acid₋free paper) |
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