Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS x
6. INTRODUCTION Americanization Reconsidered xiii
7. Part I TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERNITIES
8. 1. America in the German Imagination 1
9. 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe 26
10. 3. Surface above All? American Influence on Japanese Urban Space 45
11. Part II DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL
12. 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945–1965 79
13. 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions 109
14. Part III TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
15. 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities 125
16. 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering 148
17. 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music 166
18. Part IV DE-ESSENTIALIZING “AMERICA” AND THE “NATIVE”
19. 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany 185
20. 10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization 208
21. 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism 224
22. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 237
23. INDEX 247