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Globalization and American popular culture / Lane Crothers.

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Main Author: Crothers, Lane
Other title:Globalization & American popular culture.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ℗♭2007.
Series:Globalization (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Globalization > Social aspects > United States.
Civilization, Modern > American influences.
United States > Foreign economic relations.
United States > Foreign public opinion.
Globalization > Social aspects.
International economic relations.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Public opinion.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. American popular culture and globalization
  • Understanding culture, popular culture, and American culture
  • Anthropological culture
  • Popular culture
  • "American" popular culture
  • Grasping globalization
  • Economic globalization and American popular culture
  • Political globalization and American popular culture
  • Cultural globalization and American popular culture
  • 2. The global scope of American popular culture
  • The popular culture machine of the global era
  • The development of the American popular culture industry
  • A brief history of the movie industry
  • A brief history of the recording industry
  • A brief history of the television industry
  • Movies, music, and television from the USA to the world
  • 3. "American" popular culture
  • Popular culture and the nation-state
  • American civic culture and American popular culture I
  • American civic culture and American popular culture II
  • American movies
  • Titanic : class and the American dream
  • The Patriot : extraordinary individuals and the making of liberty
  • Blade Runner : the emptiness of consumer capitalism
  • American television
  • The universe of Star Trek and the universe according to Star Trek
  • The West Wing and the democratic experiment
  • Max Headroom and the dark side of consumer capitalism
  • American music
  • Deconstructing Britney Spears
  • The making of Garth Brooks
  • Tupac Shakur and the making of a rap archetype
  • The formulas in American popular culture
  • 4. Globalization, fragmegration, and American popular culture
  • Global law and American popular culture
  • American popular culture and fragmegration in four countries
  • Fragmegration and American popular culture in Iran
  • Fragmegration and American popular culture in France
  • Fragmegration and American popular culture in Venezuela
  • Fragmegration and American popular culture in Hong Kong
  • 5. American popular culture and the future of globalization
  • Cultural responses to change
  • Hybridity, cultural change, and American popular culture
  • Glocalization, cultural change, and the American popular culture
  • The future of American popular culture and globalization.

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