Americanization and Anti-Americanism; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART 1: POLITICS OF CULTURE; ANTI-AMERICANISM AND AMERICANIZATION; COUNTER-AMERICANISM AND CRITICAL CURRENTS IN WEST GERMAN RECONSTRUCTION 1945-1960; SAIGON, NUREMBERG, AND THE WEST; PART 2: POPULAR CULTURE; RESISTING BOOGIE-WOOGIE CULTURE, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, AND POP ART; FROM NIGHTMARE TO MODEL?; LEARNING FROM AMERICA; PART 3: FILM; CINEMATIC AMERICANIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN GERMANY; ANTI-AMERICANISM AND THE COLD WAR; GERMAN CINEMA FACE TO FACE WITH HOLLYWOOD; PART 4. EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES; DOUBLE CROSSINGS
Anti-americanism and anti-modernism in europecalifornia blue; awkward relations; part 5: outlook; crisis or cooperation?; germans and americans; selected bibliography for the period 1945 to the present; contributors; index
Summary
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
