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European Readings of American Popular Culture
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Ever the Twain Shall Meet by John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Introduction: America and Europe: A Clash of Imagined Communities by Rob Kroes
The Image
Blackface Minstrels and Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Nineteenth-Century Entertainment Forms as Cultural Exports by John G. Blair
Creative Chiasmus: Comparative Evolution of U.S. Television and Cinema Products in the 1980s by Francis Bordat
A Comics Interlude by Jean-Paul Gabilliet
My Very Own America by Jean-Claude Mézières
Popular Music
Rocking and Rapping in the Dutch Welfare State by Mel van Elteren
Here, There, and Everywhere: Rock Music, Mass Culture, and the Counterculture by Claude Chastagner
Negotiations and Love Songs: Towards a Verifiable Interpretation of Popular Music by Karl Adams, Henri Drost and Eugéne van Erven
The Written Word
Harlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature by Annick Capelle
Reader's Digest: A Rosy World for Both Sides of the Atlantic by Daniel Baylon
"Seriously Lurid": The Pitfalls of Publishing American Crime Fiction in Britain by Andrew Pepper
Food
Pride and Prejudice: American Cuisine, the French, and Godliness by Mireille Favier
"Wash Your Hands with Coca-Cola": Coca-Cola's European Tribulations by Laurent Ditmann
Social Customs
The Barbie Doll by Marianne Debouzy
Serial Heroes: A Sociocultural Probing into Excessive Consumption by Robert Conrath
The Mayflower Need Not Sail Back: The US of A is Going European by Claude-Jean Bertrand
Ethnic Cultures
"America" in Popular Irish Fiction and Drama: Elements of a Transcultural Discourse by Ciáran Ross
Minorities in US Films: The New Wave 60s-70s by Penny Starfield
America on My Mind by Lazare Bitoun
Americanization
A Taste of Honey: Adorno's Reading of American Mass Culture by Kaspar Maase
The Experience of Freedom and Vacuum: An Anthropologist at Euro Disney by Marc Augé
Popular Culture and Mass Culture: A Franco-European Dilemma by Jean-Marie Domenach (translated by Jean-Paul Gabilliet)
Selected Bibiography
Index

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A collection of basically healthy, skeptical, alternately seductive, sympathetic, abrasive, and challenging insights into how American culture works both within Europe and from the European viewpoint.

About the Author

JOHN DEAN is an American, born and educated in the United States, who has lived half his life in Europe. He is currently professor of American Civilization and Mass Media Studies at Université Strasbourg II. He has written books and professional articles on popular culture, including American Popular Culture (1992).

JEAN-PAUL GABILLIET is professor of English and North American Studies at the Strasbourg Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of an unpublished doctoral thesis on anthropological aspects of comic books and comic-book reading in North America, as well as numerous articles on North American popular culture and U.S.-Canadian relations.

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