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Book SynopsisExplores American influences not only on European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also on youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.
Trade ReviewReplete with astonishingly eloquent views on a diverse range of subjects, including religion, UFO-fixation and youth rebellion among others, this book makes compelling reading and provides a provocative platform for further discussions. -- Akinbola E. Akinwumi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria * Discourse & Society *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Western Europe Chapter 3 Does Mickey Mouse threaten French Culture? The French Debate about EuroDisneyland Chapter 4 Culture vs. Commerce: Europe Strives to Keep Hollywood at Bay Chapter 5 Fear and Fascination: American Popular Culture in a Divided Germany, 1945-1968 Chapter 6 The Pendulum of Cultural Imperialism: Popular Music Interchanges between the United States and Britain, 1943-1967 Chapter 7 Coca-Cola Co. and the Olympic Movement-Global or American? Chapter 8 The Impact of the American Myth among Post-War Italian Intellectuals: Modernization, post-modernity, or homologation? Chapter 9 American Missionaries to Darkest Europe Part 10 Part II: Eastern Europe Chapter 11 Appropriation of the American Gangster Film and the Transition to Capitalism: Poland's Dogs and Russia's Brother Chapter 12 Two cheers for the red, white, and blue: Hungarian Assessments of American Popular Culture Chapter 13 Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream, and the Things that Shape the Way We See Each Other Chapter 14 Shake, Rattle, and Self-Management: Making the Scene in Socialist Yugoslavia, and After Chapter 15 UFOs over Russia and Eastern Europe Chapter 16 Émigré-zation: Russian Artists and American Children's Picture Books Chapter 17 Afterword
