Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof! The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

by Crnkovic, Gordana; Bryn, Steinar; Cooper, B Lee; Cooper, Laura E.; Crnkovic, Gordana P.; Debouzy, Marianne; Eagle, Herbert J.; Giffard, C Anthony; Guarnieri, Giulia; Holmgren, Beth; James, Beverly; Poiger, Uta G.; Ramet, Sabrina P.; Stark, Rodney

• ISBN13: 9780742500006
• ISBN10: 0742500004
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Explores American influences not only on European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also on youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Part One: Introduction
Americanization, Anti-Americanism, and Commercial Aggression against Culture: An Introduction	3	(6)
Sabrina P. Ramet
``American'' Utility vs. ``Useless'' Reflection: On Possible Futures on Both Sides of the Atlantic	9	(6)
Gordana P. Crnkovic
Part Two: Western Europe
Does Mickey Mouse Threaten French Culture? The French Debate about EuroDisneyland	15	(22)
Marianne Debouzy
Culture versus Commerce: Europe Strives to Keep Hollywood at Bay	37	(18)
C. Anthony Giffard
Fear and Fascination: American Popular Culture in a Divided Germany, 1945--1968	55	(14)
Uta G. Poiger
The Pendulum of Cultural Imperialism: Popular Music Interchanges between the United States and Britain, 1943--1967	69	(14)
Laura E. Cooper
B. Lee Cooper
The Coca-Cola Co. and the Olympic Movement---Global or American?	83	(19)
Steinar Bryn
The Impact of the American Myth in Postwar Italian Literature: Modernization, Postmodernity, or Homologation?	102	(10)
Giulia Guarnieri
American Missionaries to ``Darkest'' Europe	112	(15)
Rodney Stark
Part Three: Eastern Europe
Appropriation of the American Gangster Film and the Transition to Capitalism: Poland's Dogs and Russia's Brother	127	(21)
Herbert J. Eagle
Two Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue: Hungarian Assessments of American Popular Culture	148	(10)
Beverly James
Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream and the Things That Shape the Way We See Each Other	158	(15)
Gordana P. Crnkovic
Shake, Rattle, and Self-Management: Rock Music and Politics in Socialist Yugoslavia, and After	173	(25)
Sabrina P. Ramet
UFOs over Russia and Eastern Europe	198	(21)
Sabrina P. Ramet
Emigre-zation: Russian Artists and American Children's Picture Books	219	(16)
Beth Holmgren
Afterword	235	(9)
Uta G. Poiger
Names Index	244	(5)
Subject Index	249	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	261