ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A collection of basically healthy, skeptical, alternately seductive, sympathetic, abrasive, and challenging insights into how American culture works both within Europe and from the European viewpoint.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1996]
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ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsidera fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike.The book's focus is both sensuous and intellectual: how America is seen (The Image); heard (Popular Music); perused (The Written Word); digested (Food); learned from its common ways (Social Customs); perceived by minorities (Ethnic Cultures); and taken as an instrument of change (Americanization). It is the first book of its kind published in the United States. It is rich with selected, up-to-date critical bibliographies in areas for which very little information is otherwise available. In sum: a cogent, cross-cultural analysis of how U.S. popular culture exposes both European dreams of well-being and nightmares of discontent. These are insights which deserve to be savored. Nearly two ...

ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0313294291, ISBN13: 9780313294297, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover 288 pp., Hardcover, fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
[Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

Westport, CT Praeger 1996 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Contains: Unspecified. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture.

Praeger, Date: 1996. 288 pp., Hardcover, fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. 1996. Praeger ISBN 0313294291 9780313294297 [US]