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Fabricating the absolute fake : America in contemporary pop culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kooijman, Jaap
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States > Influence.
Popular culture > United States > History > 21st century.
Americanization.
United States > Civilization > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: fabricating the absolute fake
  • We are the world : America's dominance in global pop culture
  • The Oprahification of 9/11 : America as imagined community
  • The desert of the real : America as hyperreality
  • Americans we never were : Dutch pop culture as karaoke Americanism
  • The Dutch dream : Americanization, pop culture, and national identity
  • Conclusion: Let's make things better.