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Americanization and anti-Americanism : the German encounter with American culture after 1945 / edited by Alexander Stephan.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.G3 A626 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-Americanism--Germany.
- Anti-Americanism.
- Americanization.
- Public opinion--Germany.
- Public opinion.
- Politics and culture.
- Popular culture.
- Germany.
- Popular culture--Germany.
- Politics and culture--Germany.
- United States--Relations--Germany.
- United States.
- Relations.
- Germany--Relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign public opinion, German.
- Germany--Civilization--American influences.
- Civilization.
- Germany--Foreign relations--1945-.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Politics of Culture
- Anti-Americanism and Americanization / Russell A. Berman 11
- Counter-Americanism and Critical Currents in West German Reconstruction 1945-1960: The German Lesson Confronts the American Way of Life / Michael Ermarth 25
- Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German Images of America in the Late 1960s / Bernd Greiner 51
- Part 2 Popular Culture
- Resisting Boogie-Woogie Culture, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art: German Highbrow Objections to the Import of "American" Forms of Culture, 1945-1965 / Jost Hermand 67
- From Nightmare to Model? Why German Broadcasting Became Americanized / Kaspar Maase 78
- Learning from America: Reconstructing "Race" in Postwar Germany / Heide Fehrenbach 107
- Part 3 Film
- Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: Whose Memory Is It? / David Bathrick 129
- Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: On the DEFA Berlin Films / Sabine Hake 148
- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror / Thomas Elsaesser 166
- Part 4 European and Global Perspectives
- Double Crossings: The Reciprocal Relationship between American and European Culture in the Twentieth Century / Richard Pells 189
- Anti-Americanism and Anti-Modernism in Europe: Old and Recent Versions / Rob Kroes 202
- California Blue: Americanization as Self-Americanization / Winfried Fluck 221
- Awkward Relations: American Perceptions of Europe, European Perceptions of America / Volker R. Berghahn 238
- Part 5 Outlook
- Crisis or Cooperation? The Transatlantic Relationship at a Watershed / Karsten D. Voigt 253
- Germans and Americans: Understanding and Managing Change / Bowman H. Miller 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571816739
- OCLC:
- 54611139
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