Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan

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Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan

edited by Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger

Berghahn Books, 2000

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

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American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational,socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Americanization Reconsidered Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger PART I: TWENTIETH-CENUTRY MODERNITIES Chapter 1. America in the German Imagination Mary Nolan Chapter 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe David W. Ellwood Chapter 3. Surface Above All? American Influence on Japanese Botond Bognar PART II: DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL Chapter 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945-1965 Heide Fehrenbach Chapter 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions James Petterson PART III: TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY Chapter 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities Uta G. Poiger Chapter 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering Franco Minganti Chapter 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music Ian Condry PART IV: DE-ESSENTIALIZING "AMERICA" AND THE "NATIVE" Chapter 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany Peter Krieger Chapter 10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization Richard F. Kuisel Chapter 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism Takayuki Tatsumi Select Bibliography Index

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