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| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Introduction: Americanization Reconsidered | ||
| I | Twentieth-Century Modernities | |
| 1 | America in the German Imagination | 3 |
| 2 | Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe | 26 |
| 3 | Surface above All? American Influence on Japanese Urban Space | 45 |
| II | Drawing Cultural Boundaries, Forging the National | |
| 4 | Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945-1965 | 81 |
| 5 | No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions | 109 |
| III | Transnational Stylings: American Music and the Politics of Identity | |
| 6 | American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities | 127 |
| 7 | Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering | 148 |
| 8 | The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music | 166 |
| IV | De-essentializing "America" and the "Native" | |
| 9 | Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany | 187 |
| 10 | The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization | 208 |
| 11 | Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism | 224 |
| Select Bibliography | 237 | |
| Index | 247 |
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Paul Goldstein
reviewed Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan on July 16, 2011 Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations
This is an eclectic collection of stories, anecdotes, essays and journal entries. The stories tend to the melancholic, which is well served by Hearn's elegant, atmospheric style. They've probably aged better then the essays, which are quite of their time. References to racial type, which might be quite reasonable in other words, grate. And the Japan that Hearn describes is quite different from Japan now, certainly when it comes to the cityscape. You wonder what he'd think of how things have changed. But most of the essays are actually rather metaphysical, being on Buddhism, or the Japanese concept of the soul. Some of them are better than others, but they all paint an intriguing picture of another world - a world now distant in time, and not just space.
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