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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... Popular Culture : Here , There , and Everywhere ( October 2002 ) and American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad ( September 2005 ) . I want to thank Marty Gecek , Tilly de Groot , and the American Embassy in the Hague , the Netherlands ...
... Popular Culture : Here , There , and Everywhere ( October 2002 ) and American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad ( September 2005 ) . I want to thank Marty Gecek , Tilly de Groot , and the American Embassy in the Hague , the Netherlands ...
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... popular American artist of the twentieth century.”3 More- over, Rockwell's depictions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms in 1943, including the freedom of expression, have become iconic representa- tions of American ...
... popular American artist of the twentieth century.”3 More- over, Rockwell's depictions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms in 1943, including the freedom of expression, have become iconic representa- tions of American ...
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... popular culture ( ranging from jazz and rock ' n ' roll to Hollywood and hip - hop ) has been appropriated by subcultures , often youth subcultures , which use American popular culture as a liberating form of expression . Rather than ...
... popular culture ( ranging from jazz and rock ' n ' roll to Hollywood and hip - hop ) has been appropriated by subcultures , often youth subcultures , which use American popular culture as a liberating form of expression . Rather than ...
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... popular” culture to emphasize that its cultural artifacts are commercially mass-produced and mass-mediated, intended to make a profit (in contrast to popular culture, which also includes “underground” subcultures and folklore), as well ...
... popular” culture to emphasize that its cultural artifacts are commercially mass-produced and mass-mediated, intended to make a profit (in contrast to popular culture, which also includes “underground” subcultures and folklore), as well ...
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... popular culture has become the real of the everyday American , then mining the shiny and salacious surfaces of American media becomes more fascinating and eerily relevant . ” 24 In addition to hyperreality as defined by Eco and ...
... popular culture has become the real of the everyday American , then mining the shiny and salacious surfaces of American media becomes more fascinating and eerily relevant . ” 24 In addition to hyperreality as defined by Eco and ...
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