CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1: POLITICS OF CULTURE
6. Anti-Americanism and Americanization 11
7. Counter-Americanism and Critical Currents in West German Reconstruction 1945-1960: The German Lesson Confronts the American Way of Life 25
8. Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German Images of America in the Late 1960s 51
9. PART 2: POPULAR CULTURE
10. Resisting Boogie-Woogie Culture, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art: German Highbrow Objections to the Import of “American” Forms of Culture, 1945-1965 67
11. From Nightmare to Model? Why German Broadcasting Became Americanized 78
12. Learning from America: Reconstructing “Race” in Postwar Germany 107
13. PART 3: FILM
14. Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: Whose Memory Is It? 129
15. Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: On the DEFA Berlin Films 148
16. German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror 166
17. PART 4: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
18. Double Crossings: The Reciprocal Relationship between American and European Culture in the Twentieth Century 189
19. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Modernism in Europe: Old and Recent Versions 202
20. California Blue: Americanization as Self-Americanization 221
21. Awkward Relations: American Perceptions of Europe, European Perceptions of America 238
22. PART 5: OUTLOOK
23. Crisis or Cooperation? The Transatlantic Relationship at a Watershed 253
24. Germans and Americans: Understanding and Managing Change 257
25. Bibliography 263
26. Contributors 276
27. Index 283