America and the European sense of history

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Odrzucenie czy akceptacja? Hollywood w Holandii

Publikacja została sfinansowana ze środków Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki w ramach projektu nr 12H 11 0004 8

Prison area, independence valley: American paradoxes in political life and popular culture

Rob Kroes is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Amsterdam, now also honorary professor at the University of Utrecht. One of Europe\u27s leading American studies scholars, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including Photographic Memories: Private Pictures, Public Images, and American History. Rights Information Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Trustees of Dartmouth Collegehttps://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/dartmouth_press/1024/thumbnail.jp

Hans Bak, Frank Mehring, Mathilde Roza, eds., Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy

Hans Bak, Frank Mehring, Mathilde Roza, eds., Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN: 9789004292017 Rob Kroes This volume of essays is written from many angles, and shifts focus from narrower to wider ones. Yet, consistently, it centers on exploring the local in histories more commonly set in national or global frames. Trans-nationalism may be all the rage in recent turns that American Studies has taken, here..

American Studies in Europe or : Brother, can you paradigm ?

Il s'agit du texte d'une communication prononcée en ouverture des Doctoriales de l'AFEA à Orléans le 24 mai 2001. Il comporte deux parties, l'une proposant une définition du paradigme des études américaines dans une perspective internationale, l'autre à travers des études d'images publicitaires essayant de montrer comment la culture de masse américaine influe sur les cultures européennes

Editors’ Introduction

A new birth of freedom. These words spoken by Abraham Lincoln on a Civil War battlefield catch what this volume intends to explore. Repeatedly wars have been seen as offering new beginnings, requiring a new start, promising rejuvenation. At the time of World War I Randolph Bourne advocated American non-intervention, seeing it as America’s chance to cut the umbilical cord with the English mother culture, as a chance for America finally to come into its own as a “transnational culture.” If war ..