Fabricating the absolute fake: America in contemporary pop culture
The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson's turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture - Hollywood cinema, television, pop music - dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American, or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies concepts of postmodern theory - Baudrillard's hyperreality and Eco's "absolute fake," among others - to this globally mediated American pop culture in order to exam... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Monographie |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
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Amsterdam Univ. Press
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Schlagwörter: | Sociology & anthropology / Philosophy / Philosophie / Soziologie / Anthropologie / Kultursoziologie / Kunstsoziologie / Literatursoziologie / sonstige Geisteswissenschaften / Cultural Sociology / Sociology of Art / Sociology of Literature / Other Fields of Humanities / Nordamerika / USA / Popkultur / Gegenwart / Kunst / Medienkultur / Amerikanisierung / kulturelles Verhalten / Identität / Niederlande / North America / United States of America / pop culture / present / art / media culture / americanization / cultural behavior / identity / Netherlands |
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Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27637121 |
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Link(s) : | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/31813 |
The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson's turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture - Hollywood cinema, television, pop music - dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American, or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies concepts of postmodern theory - Baudrillard's hyperreality and Eco's "absolute fake," among others - to this globally mediated American pop culture in order to examine both the phenomenon itself and its appropriation in the Netherlands, as evidenced by such diverse cultural icons as the Elvis-inspired crooner Lee Towers, the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B, musical tributes to an assassinated politician, and the Dutch reality soap opera scene. A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-9/11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American pop culture.