Americanization and Anti-americanism

The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945
Herausgeber: Stephan, Alexander

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781571816733
• ISBN-10: 1571816739
• Artikelnr.: 13910793

Autorenporträt

Alexander Stephan (1946-2009) was Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, where he directed a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alexander Stephan
PART I: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE
Chapter 1. Anti-Americanism and Americanization
Russell Berman
Chapter 2. Counter-Americanism and Critical Currents in West German
Reconstruction 1945-1960: The German Lesson Confronts the American Way of
Life
Michael Ermarth
Chapter 3. Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German Images of America in the
Late 1960s
Bernd Greiner
PART II: POPULAR CULTURE
Chapter 4. Resisting Boogie-Woogie Culture, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop
Art: German Highbrow Objections to the Import of "American" Forms of
Culture, 1945-1965
Jost Hermand
Chapter 5. From Nightmare to Model? Why German Broadcasting Became
Americanized
Kaspar Maase
Chapter 6. Learning from America: Reconstructing "Race" in Postwar Germany
Heide Fehrenbach
PART III: FILM
Chapter 7. Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: Whose
Memory Is It?
David Bathrick
Chapter 8. Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: On the DEFA Berlin Films
Sabine Hake
Chapter 9. German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a
Two-Way Mirror
Thomas Elsaesser
PART IV: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 10. Double Crossings: The Reciprocal Relationship between American
and European Culture in the Twentieth Century
Richard Pells
Chapter 11. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Modernism in Europe: Old and Recent
Versions
Rob Kroes
Chapter 12. California Blue: Americanization as Self-Americanization
Winfried Fluck
Chapter 13. Awkward Relations: American Perspectives on Europe, European
Perspectives on America
Volker R. Berghahn
PART V: OUTLOOK
Chapter 14. Crisis or Cooperation? The Transatlantic Relationship at a
Watershed
Karsten D. Voigt
Chapter 15. Germans and Americans: Understanding and Managing Change
Bowman H. Miller
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index