| dc.creator |
Kooijman, Jaap |
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| dc.date |
2008 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2020-02-25T15:37:10Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2020-02-25T15:37:10Z |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.oapen.org/record/340110 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:13136 |
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| dc.identifier |
ISBN: 9789053564929 |
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| dc.identifier |
DOI: 10.5117/9789053564929 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32429 |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.language |
English |
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| dc.publisher |
Amsterdam University Press |
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| dc.rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
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| dc.subject |
culture and instituten |
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| dc.subject |
culture and institutions |
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| dc.subject |
motion pictures |
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| dc.subject |
film |
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| dc.title |
Fabricating the Absolute Fake |
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| dc.type |
book |
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