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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 over.

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From the pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's daytime talk show to the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola empire, American "pop" culture-and the contemporary films, television programs, and cultural objects that determine it-dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies elements of postmodern theory-Jean Baudrillard's hyperreality and Umberto Eco's "absolute fake", among others-to this globally mediated American pop culture in order to examine both the phenomenon itself and its specific appropriation in the Netherlands, as evidenced by diverse cultural icons like the Elvis-inspired crooner Lee Towers, the Moroccan-Dutch white rapper Ali B, musical tributes to an assassinated politician, and the Dutch reality soap opera scene. A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-September 11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American popular culture. "A brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable work of cultural critique. . . . Jaap Kooijman takes seemingly exhausted concepts like "Americanization" and turns them on their head."-Anne McCarthy, New York University

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Couvrant une vaste période, de la fin du xixe siècle à nos jours, l’ouvrage aborde la question de la culture ouvrière dans une perspective transnationale, interdisciplinaire et interculturelle en cohérence avec les questionnements actuels de l’historiographie : à l’heure du discours sur la mémoire du mouvement ouvrier, il en retrace l’évolution dans l’espace germanophone, en mettant en évidence des pratiques culturelles porteuses de progrès pour la classe ouvrière. La notion de culture ouvrière, prise au sens large du terme, est donc analysée dans ses implications historiques, politiques, sociologiques, linguistiques et artistiques. Plusieurs études font intervenir la dimension comparatiste avec une mise en perspective entre la Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie et le Nord-Pas de Calais. La politique culturelle de la RDA, État des travailleurs et paysans, y occupe une place centrale, montrant les limites d’une culture ouvrière imposée et uniquement centrée sur la place de l’ouvrier dans l’appareil productif. Dans le contexte d’une culture de masse, la pérennité des notions de classe ouvrière, et donc de culture ouvrière, a pu être remise en cause, mais plusieurs auteurs évoquent aussi une culture qui intègre la dimension du travail, d’un travail aliénant ou précaire, mais aussi l’absence de travail, dans des domaines comme le théâtre, la littérature ou la lutte syndicale, avec notamment les questions d’intégration des immigrés et du multiculturalisme.

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Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay-a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves-has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis.

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