{"product_id":"media-popular-culture-and-the-american-century-paperback-softback-9780861966981","title":"Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780861966981","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedia, Popular Culture, and the American Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKingsley Bolton (Author), Jan Olsson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780861966981\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1941, media mogul Henry R. Luce exulted, \"American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products are in fact the only things that every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognizes in common.\" It is as true today as it was then. From the early days of Hollywood, an insatiable demand for U.S. cultural products—in advertising, fashion, film, popular music, television, and much else—has had a profound and continuing impact across the globe. \u003ci\u003eMedia, Popular Culture, and the American Century \u003c\/i\u003eexplores a diverse range of Americana, where the borders between the real and the imaginary, dream and dystopia, America and the world, blur and disappear. Essays move from configurations of U.S. culture in the early 1900s to the age of Google and digital music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The American Century—and now what?, Kingsley Bolton and Jan Olsson:\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cinema and Americanization\u003cbr\u003e 1. Italian Marionettes Meet Cinematic Modernity, an Olsson\u003cbr\u003e 2. Red-Blooded America in the Early Feature Film, Joel Frykholm\u003cbr\u003e 3. Song of the Sonic Body: Noise, the Audience, and Early American Moving Picture Culture, Meredith Ward\u003cbr\u003e 4. Constructing the American Vernacular: The Media and Language Change, Kingsley Bolton,\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Americans at the Margins\u003cbr\u003e 5. You Only Love Once: Repetitions of Crime as Desire in the Films of Sylvia Sidney, 1930–1937, Esther Sonnet\u003cbr\u003e 6. Punks! Topicality and the 1950s Gangster Bio-Pic Cycle, Peter Stanfield\u003cbr\u003e 7. Civil Rights on the Screen, Michael Renov\u003cbr\u003e Part III. American Dreams\/American\u003cbr\u003e Nightmares\u003cbr\u003e 8. Sun Yu and the Early Americanization of Chinese Cinema, Corrado Neri\u003cbr\u003e 9. Amérique, A-mei-li-ga and métissage: Looking for America in Martinique, Gold Mountain, and the Cuban-Chinese Restaurant, Gregory Lee\u003cbr\u003e 10. Importing Evil: The American Gangster, Swedish Cinema, and Anti-American Propaganda, Ann-Kristin Wallengren\u003cbr\u003e Part IV America Goes Digital\u003cbr\u003e 11. Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Visualizing and mapping the U.S. Digital TV Transition, Lisa Parks\u003cbr\u003e 12. Archival Transitions and Digital Propositions, Pelle Snickars\u003cbr\u003e 13. Are Americans Human?, Evelyn Ch'ien\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Rethinking American Studies, William Uricchio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"John Libbey Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580506665240,"sku":"9780861966981","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/media-popular-culture-and-the-american-century-paperback-softback-9780861966981","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}