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European readings of American popular culture

Author: John Dean; Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 50.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
European readings of American popular culture.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996
(OCoLC)603850505
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Dean; Jean-Paul Gabilliet
ISBN: 0313294291 9780313294297
OCLC Number: 32968957
Description: lii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface : Ever the twain shall meet / John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet --
Introduction : America and Europe - a clash of imagined communities / Rob Kroes --
Part I : The image --
Blackface minstrels and Buffalo Bill's Wild West : nineteenth-century entertainment forms as cultural exports / John G. Blair --
Creative chiasmus : comparative evolution of U.S. television and cinema products in the 1980s / Francis Bordat --
A comics interlude / Jean-Paul Gabilliet --
My very own America / Jean-Claude Mézières --
Part II : Popular music --
Rocking and rapping in the Dutch welfare state / Mel van Elteren --
Here, there, and everywhere : rock music, mass culture, and the counterculture / Claude Chastagner --
Negotiations and love songs : toward a verifiable interpretation of popular music / Karl Adams, Henri Drost, and Eugène van Erven --
Part III : The written word --
Harlequin romances in Western Europe : the cultural interactions of romantic literature / Annick Capelle --
Reader's digest : a rosy world for both sides of the Atlantic / Daniel Baylon --
"Seriously lurid" : the pitfalls of publishing American crime fiction in Britain / Andrew Pepper --
Part IV : Food --
Pride and prejudice : American cuisine, the French, and Godliness / Mireille Favier --
"Wash your hands with Coca-Cola" : Coca-Cola's European tribulations / Laurent Ditmann --
Part V : Social customs --
The Barbie doll / Marianne Debouzy --
Serial heroes : a sociocultural probing into excessive consumption / Robert Conrath --
The Mayflower need not sail back : the US of A is going European / Claude-Jean Bertrand --
Part VI : Ethnic cultures --
"America" in popular Irish fiction and drama : elements of a transcultural discourse / Ciaràn Ross --
Minorities in U.S. films : the New Wave 1960s-1970s / Penny Starfield --
America on my mind / Lazare Bitoun --
Part VII : Americanization --
A taste of honey : Adorno's reading of American mass culture / Kaspar Maase --
The experience of freedom and vacuum : an anthropologist at Euro Disney / Marc Augé --
Popular culture and mass culture : a Franco-European dilemna / Jean-Marie Domenach.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 50.
Responsibility: edited by John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet.

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