TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kooijman,Jaap
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Fabricating the Absolute Fake - revised edition / 
T2  - American Studies
SN  - 9789048519552
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - American influences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Influence americaine
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Pays-Bas
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76699/
ER  -