"Americanisation--the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA--has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been the case from the 19th century, when new and old worlds were negotiating fundamental issues such as race and empire, to the 20th century, when mass media communications intensified and reconfigured the transatlantic relationship. Developments since the Cold War, including the September 1 ..."
"Americanization - the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA - has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanization. Included are chapters on music, art, film and literature. Designed with classroom use in mind, it provides a number of different routes into the debates and probl ..."