Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kooijman, Jaap

Titel

Fabricating the Absolute Fake

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• The pageantry of Oprah Winfreys talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jacksons 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 - Baudrillards hyperreality and Ecos 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
• English