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Fabricating the absolute fake: America in contemporary pop culture
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Kooijman, Jaap
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| 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 culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American pop culture. |
| Keywords | North America; United States of America; pop culture; present; art; media culture; americanization; cultural behavior; identity; Netherlands |
| Classification | Other Fields of Humanities; Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam Univ. Press |
| City | Amsterdam |
| Page/Pages | 184 p. |
| Series | American Studies |
| ISBN | 978-90-5356-492-9 |
| Status | Published Version; peer reviewed |
| Licence | Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works |
| Document Type | monograph |
