Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
Contents
American culture in European metaphors : the West as will and conception -- High and low : the quest for cultural standards in America -- Film as a mechanical art : Hollywood in Holland -- Advertising : the world of disjointed attributes -- The fifth freedom and the commodification of civic virtue -- Mediated history : the Vietnam War as a media event -- Breathless : the French nouvelle vague and Hollywood -- Rap : the ultimate staccato culture -- Americanization : what