Author

Publication

2016-10-06 - Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27452875M
  • ISBN-139781474287838
  • ISBN-101474287832
  • OCLC Control Number1201425909
  • Amazon1474287832

Classifications

  • LCCCB430

Description

"We can do little to escape the experience of the United States of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From black face minstrelsy, rap music and fiction to McDonald's, rock festivals and Star Trek, the cultural conception of America is critically unpacked by contributors from Europe, Israel and the USA. McKay rounds off the picture by offering a comprehensive introduction that explains theoretical approaches to Americanization from the thesis of Yankee cultural imperialism to America as site of liberation or fantasy."--

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Other Editions

  • Yankee Go Home: Americanization and Popular CultureHardcoverBloomsbury Academic2016-10-06

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