Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan / edited by Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger.

Contributor Fehrenbach, Heide.

Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, c2000.

Descriptionxl, 258 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction: Americanization reconsidered / Heide Fehrenbach, Uta G. Poiger -- I. TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERNITIES: America in the German imagination / Mary Nolan -- Comparative anti-Americanism in Western Europe / David W. Ellwood -- Surface above all? American influence on Japanese urban space / Botond Bognar -- II. DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL: Persistent myths of Americanization: German reconstrucion and the renationalization of postwar cinema, 1945-1965 / Heidi Fehrenbach -- No more song and dance: French radio broadcast quotas, chansons, and cultural exceptions / James Petterson -- III. TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: American music, Cold War liberalism, and German identities / Uta G. Poiger -- Jukebox boys: postwar Italian music and the culture of covering / Franco Minganti -- The social production of difference: imitation and authenticity in Japanese rap music / Ian Condry -- IV. DE-ESSENTIALIZING "AMERICA" AND THE "NATIVE" : Learning from America: postwar urban recovery in West Germany / Peter Krieger -- The French cinema and Hollywood: a case study of Americanization / Richard F. Kuisel-- Waiting for Godzilla: chaotic negotiations between post-orientalism and hyper-occidentalism / Takayuki Tatsumi.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.

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