Conclusion: Let’s Make Things Better

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction: Fabricating the Absolute Fake 9
5. Chapter One: We Are the World: America’s Dominance in Global Pop Culture 21
6. Chapter Two: The Oprahifi cation of 9/ 11: America as Imagined Community 41
7. Chapter Three: The Desert of the Real: America as Hyperreality 67
8. Chapter Four: Americans We Never Were: Dutch Pop Culture as Karaoke Americanism 93
9. Chapter Five: The Dutch Dream: Americanization, Pop Culture, and National Identity 119
10. Conclusion: Let’s Make Things Better 141
11. Notes 147
12. Bibliography 163
13. Index 171