Fabricating the absolute fake: America in contemporary pop culture

Abstract: 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 cul

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9789053564929
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 184 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Klassifikation
Englische Literatur Amerikas
Englische Literatur

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wer)
Amsterdam Univ. Press
(wann)
2008
Urheber

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-318138
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
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