European Readings of American Popular Culture (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments Preface Ever the Twain Shall Meet by John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet Introduction: America and Europe: A Clash of Imagined Communities by Rob Kroes The Image Blackface Minstrels and Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Nineteenth-Century Entertainment Forms as Cultural Exports by John G. Blair Creative Chiasmus: Comparative Evolution of U.S. Television and Cinema Products in the 1980s by Francis Bordat A Comics Interlude by Jean-Paul Gabilliet My Very Own America by Jean-Claude Mezieres Popular Music Rocking and Rapping in the Dutch Welfare State by Mel van Elteren Here, There, and Everywhere: Rock Music, Mass Culture, and the Counterculture by Claude Chastagner Negotiations and Love Songs: Towards a Verifiable Interpretation of Popular Music by Karl Adams, Henri Drost and Eugene van Erven The Written Word Harlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature by Annick Capelle Reader's Digest: A Rosy World for Both Sides of the Atlantic by Daniel Baylon "Seriously Lurid": The Pitfalls of Publishing American Crime Fiction in Britain by Andrew Pepper Food Pride and Prejudice: American Cuisine, the French, and Godliness by Mireille Favier "Wash Your Hands with Coca-Cola": Coca-Cola's European Tribulations by Laurent Ditmann Social Customs The Barbie Doll by Marianne Debouzy Serial Heroes: A Sociocultural Probing into Excessive Consumption by Robert Conrath The Mayflower Need Not Sail Back: The US of A is Going European by Claude-Jean Bertrand Ethnic Cultures "America" in Popular Irish Fiction and Drama: Elements of a Transcultural Discourse by Ciaran Ross Minorities in US Films: The New Wave 60s-70s by Penny Starfield America on My Mind by Lazare Bitoun Americanization A Taste of Honey: Adorno's Reading of American Mass Culture by Kaspar Maase The Experience of Freedom and Vacuum: An Anthropologist at Euro Disney by Marc Auge Popular Culture and Mass Culture: A Franco-European Dilemma by Jean-Marie Domenach (translated by Jean-Paul Gabilliet) Selected Bibiography Index