Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop CultureThe pageantry of Oprah Winfrey’s daytime talk show, the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson’s turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: 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 phenomena itself and its 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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... Shouf Shouf Habibi! (2004, Albert ter Heerdt), which all use the genre conventions of American pop culture to comment on the post- 9/11 political debate about national identity and multiculturalism. My choice to focus exclusively on ...
... Shouf Shouf Habibi! (2004, Albert ter Heerdt), which all use the genre conventions of American pop culture to comment on the post- 9/11 political debate about national identity and multiculturalism. My choice to focus exclusively on ...
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... Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , 2004 ) , and action films such as Lek ( Jean van de Velde , 2000 ) and Vet Hard ( Tim Oliehoek , 2005 ) . Even though these films also rely heavily on the often clichéd genre conventions of ...
... Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , 2004 ) , and action films such as Lek ( Jean van de Velde , 2000 ) and Vet Hard ( Tim Oliehoek , 2005 ) . Even though these films also rely heavily on the often clichéd genre conventions of ...
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... by Bret Easton Ellis, as “a Dutch television actress” drinking absinthe in an Amsterdam bar with one of the film's characters. In the Dutch comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , americans we never were 111.
... by Bret Easton Ellis, as “a Dutch television actress” drinking absinthe in an Amsterdam bar with one of the film's characters. In the Dutch comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , americans we never were 111.
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America in Contemporary Pop Culture Jaap Kooijman. comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , 2004 ) , also discussed in chap- ter five , one of the Moroccan - Dutch characters tells his friends that he wants to marry a virgin who ...
America in Contemporary Pop Culture Jaap Kooijman. comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi ! ( Albert ter Heerdt , 2004 ) , also discussed in chap- ter five , one of the Moroccan - Dutch characters tells his friends that he wants to marry a virgin who ...
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... Shouf Shouf Habibi! (2004) and Kicks (2007), both directed by Albert ter Heerdt, which use Hollywood conventions to address Dutch multiculturalism. By analyzing these specific pop-cultural artifacts, I suggest that “America” can ...
... Shouf Shouf Habibi! (2004) and Kicks (2007), both directed by Albert ter Heerdt, which use Hollywood conventions to address Dutch multiculturalism. By analyzing these specific pop-cultural artifacts, I suggest that “America” can ...
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