Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Americanization Reconsidered Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger PART I: TWENTIETH-CENUTRY MODERNITIES Chapter 1. America in the German Imagination Mary Nolan Chapter 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe David W. Ellwood Chapter 3. Surface Above All? American Influence on Japanese Botond Bognar PART II: DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL Chapter 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945-1965 Heide Fehrenbach Chapter 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions James Petterson PART III: TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY Chapter 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities Uta G. Poiger Chapter 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering Franco Minganti Chapter 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music Ian Condry PART IV: DE-ESSENTIALIZING AMERICA AND THE NATIVE Chapter 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany Peter Krieger Chapter 10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization Richard F. Kuisel Chapter 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism Takayuki Tatsumi Select Bibliography Index