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Title: | Fabricating the Absolute Fake : America in Contemporary Pop Culture |
Authors: | Kooijman ,Jaap |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press |
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. |
link: | http://www.oapen.org/record/340110 |
Keywords: | Society and culture;Motion pictures;Culture and institutions |
ISBN: | 9789053564929 |
Theme: | 教科書-社會科學類 |
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