Fabricating the Absolute Fake - revised edition / Jaap Kooijman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American Studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Revised and extended editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9789048519552
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Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Additional Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Fabricating the Absolute Fake -- 1. We Are the World. America's Dominance in Global Pop Culture -- 2. The Oprahification of 9/11. America as Imagined Community -- 3. The Desert of the Real. America as Hyperreality -- 4. Americans We Never Were. Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism -- 5. The Dutch Dream. Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity -- 6. Yes We Can, This Is It. America and Celebrity Culture -- Conclusion. Let's Make Things Better -- Afterword. Teaching the Absolute Fake -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o.
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Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Additional Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Fabricating the Absolute Fake -- 1. We Are the World. America's Dominance in Global Pop Culture -- 2. The Oprahification of 9/11. America as Imagined Community -- 3. The Desert of the Real. America as Hyperreality -- 4. Americans We Never Were. Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism -- 5. The Dutch Dream. Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity -- 6. Yes We Can, This Is It. America and Celebrity Culture -- Conclusion. Let's Make Things Better -- Afterword. Teaching the Absolute Fake -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o.

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