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Over (t)here
This study written by European and American scholars reflects on mutual cultural interpenetrations during the past centuries, showing how European culture affects American culture and vice versa. It explores how the unceasing exchange of people, images, and ideas has resulted in cultural transformations within politics, literature, art, media, religion, commerce, and education.
If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall
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.
Photographic Memories
The role of photographs in the formation of public memories.
Buffalo Bill in Bologna
When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach of American mass culture extends into every corner of the globe. Most believe this is a twentieth-century phenomenon, but here Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes prove that its roots are far deeper. Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the process of globalizing American mass culture began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of World War I, the United States already boasted an advanced network of culture industries that served ...
Prison Area, Independence Valley
A major voice in transnational American studies addresses politics and culture in post-9/11 America
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-9/11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American pop culture.
Global America?
Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.
Prison Area, Independence Valley
A major voice in transnational American studies addresses politics and culture in post-9/11 America
