European Readings of American Popular Culture

JOHN DEAN is an American, born and educated in the United States, who has lived half his life in Europe. He is currently professor of American Civilization and Mass Media Studies at Université Strasbourg II. He has written books and professional articles on popular culture, including American Popular Culture (1992).JEAN-PAUL GABILLIET is professor of English and North American Studies at the Strasbourg Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of an unpublished doctoral thesis on anthropological aspects of comic books and comic-book reading in North America, as well as numerous articles on North American popular culture and U.S.-Canadian relations.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceEver the Twain Shall Meet by John Dean and Jean-Paul GabillietIntroduction: America and Europe: A Clash of Imagined Communities by Rob KroesThe ImageBlackface Minstrels and Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Nineteenth-Century Entertainment Forms as Cultural Exports by John G. BlairCreative Chiasmus: Comparative Evolution of U.S. Television and Cinema Products in the 1980s by Francis BordatA Comics Interlude by Jean-Paul GabillietMy Very Own America by Jean-Claude MézièresPopular MusicRocking and Rapping in the Dutch Welfare State by Mel van ElterenHere, There, and Everywhere: Rock Music, Mass Culture, and the Counterculture by Claude ChastagnerNegotiations and Love Songs: Towards a Verifiable Interpretation of Popular Music by Karl Adams, Henri Drost and Eugéne van ErvenThe Written WordHarlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature by Annick CapelleReader's Digest: A Rosy World for Both Sides of the Atlantic by Daniel Baylon"Seriously Lurid": The Pitfalls of Publishing American Crime Fiction in Britain by Andrew PepperFoodPride and Prejudice: American Cuisine, the French, and Godliness by Mireille Favier"Wash Your Hands with Coca-Cola": Coca-Cola's European Tribulations by Laurent DitmannSocial CustomsThe Barbie Doll by Marianne DebouzySerial Heroes: A Sociocultural Probing into Excessive Consumption by Robert ConrathThe Mayflower Need Not Sail Back: The US of A is Going European by Claude-Jean BertrandEthnic Cultures"America" in Popular Irish Fiction and Drama: Elements of a Transcultural Discourse by Ciáran RossMinorities in US Films: The New Wave 60s-70s by Penny StarfieldAmerica on My Mind by Lazare BitounAmericanizationA Taste of Honey: Adorno's Reading of American Mass Culture by Kaspar MaaseThe Experience of Freedom and Vacuum: An Anthropologist at Euro Disney by Marc AugéPopular Culture and Mass Culture: A Franco-European Dilemma by Jean-Marie Domenach (translated by Jean-Paul Gabilliet)Selected BibiographyIndex