Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U) (eBook, PDF)

Americanization and Popular Culture
Redaktion: Mckay, George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

We can do little to escape the experience of the United States of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From black face minstrelsy, rap music and fiction to McDonald's, rock festivals and Star Trek, the cultural conception of America is critically unpacked by contributors from Europe, Israel and the USA. McKay rounds off the picture by offering a comprehensive introduction that explains theoretical approaches to Americanization from the thesis of Yankee cultural imperialism to America as site of liberation or fantasy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474287845
• Artikelnr.: 45698753

Autorenporträt

George McKay is Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Americanization and Popular Culture George McKay
1. Blackface Minstrels as Cultural Export: England, Australia and South
Africa John G. Blair
2. The War of Words: Literature for German POWs in the United States
1943-1944 Ron Robin
3. Star Trek Old and New: From the Alien Embodied to the Alien Imagined
Karin Blair
4. The Bohemian Transformed: America, the Malcontent and the Alterations of
the1960s John Dean
5. Popular Culture and Political Discourse in American Narratives about
Vietnam Yonka Krasteva
6. I Am The King: Cultural Appropriation in Australia's Gothic Graceland
Richard Walker
7. American Life by Proxy: Dutch Youth and Sense of Place Mel van Elteren
8. The Origins and Evolution of French Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the
1980s and 1990s André J.M. Prévos
9. Afterword: Downsizing America George McKay
Notes
Bibliography
Index