Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century - Softcover

Bolton, Kingsley; Olsson, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861966988 ISBN 13: 9780861966981

Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

In 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. Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century explores 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Kingsley Bolton is Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong.

Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0861966988
• ISBN 13: 9780861966981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416