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If you've seen one, you've seen the mall : Europeans and American mass culture / Rob Kroes.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.Description: xiv, 195 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252022009 (cloth : acidb-sfree paper)
  • 0252065328 (pbk. : acidb-sfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940 20
Contents:
American culture in European metaphors : the West as will and conception -- High and low : the quest for cultural standards in America -- Film as a mechanical art : Hollywood in Holland -- Advertising : the world of disjointed attributes -- The fifth freedom and the commodification of civic virtue -- Mediated history : the Vietnam War as a media event -- Breathless : the French nouvelle vague and Hollywood -- Rap : the ultimate staccato culture -- Americanization : what are we talking about.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index.

American culture in European metaphors : the West as will and conception -- High and low : the quest for cultural standards in America -- Film as a mechanical art : Hollywood in Holland -- Advertising : the world of disjointed attributes -- The fifth freedom and the commodification of civic virtue -- Mediated history : the Vietnam War as a media event -- Breathless : the French nouvelle vague and Hollywood -- Rap : the ultimate staccato culture -- Americanization : what are we talking about.

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