Americanization and Anti-americanism (eBook)

Alexander Stephan† was Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, where he directed a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Alexander Stephan

PART I: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE

Chapter 1. Anti-Americanism and Americanization
Russell Berman

Chapter 2. Counter-Americanism and Critical Currents in West German Reconstruction 1945-1960: The German Lesson Confronts the American Way of Life
Michael Ermarth

Chapter 3. Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German Images of America in the Late 1960s
Bernd Greiner

PART II: POPULAR CULTURE

Chapter 4. Resisting Boogie-Woogie Culture, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art: German Highbrow Objections to the Import of "American" Forms of Culture, 1945-1965
Jost Hermand

Chapter 5. From Nightmare to Model? Why German Broadcasting Became Americanized
Kaspar Maase

Chapter 6. Learning from America: Reconstructing "Race" in Postwar Germany
Heide Fehrenbach

PART III: FILM

Chapter 7. Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: Whose Memory Is It?
David Bathrick

Chapter 8. Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: On the DEFA Berlin Films
Sabine Hake

Chapter 9. German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror
Thomas Elsaesser

PART IV: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 10. Double Crossings: The Reciprocal Relationship between American and European Culture in the Twentieth Century
Richard Pells

Chapter 11. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Modernism in Europe: Old and Recent Versions
Rob Kroes

Chapter 12. California Blue: Americanization as Self-Americanization
Winfried Fluck

Chapter 13. Awkward Relations: American Perspectives on Europe, European Perspectives on America
Volker R. Berghahn

PART V: OUTLOOK

Chapter 14. Crisis or Cooperation? The Transatlantic Relationship at a Watershed
Karsten D. Voigt

Chapter 15. Germans and Americans: Understanding and Managing Change
Bowman H. Miller

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index