If you've seen one, you've seen the mall : Europeans and American mass culture / Rob Kroes.
The Dutch scholar Rob Kroes argues that American culture is "modular," continually fragmenting, disassembling, and reassembling itself - and in the process creating something new. In a series of topical essays that show why he is one of Europe's leading authorities on American culture...
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℗♭1996.
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Table of Contents:
- American culture in European metaphors : the West as will and conception
- High and low : the quest for cultural standards in America
- Film as a mechanical art : Hollywood in Holland
- Advertising : the world of disjointed attributes
- The fifth freedom and the commodification of civic virtue
- Mediated history : the Vietnam War as a media event
- Breathless : the French nouvelle vague and Hollywood
- Rap : the ultimate staccato culture
- Americanization : what are we talking about.