01331cam a2200241 4500 7607 20181127183949.0 950621s1996 ilu b s001 0 eng 95032455 0252022009 (cloth : acidb-sfree paper) 0252065328 (pbk. : acidb-sfree paper) 940 20 Kroes, Rob. If you've seen one, you've seen the mall : Europeans and American mass culture / Rob Kroes. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996. xiv, 195 p. ; 24 cm. 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. Americanization. Popular culture United States. Europe Civilization American influences. 6515 6515