Gazelle Book Services Limited.
White Cross Mills, Hightown, LANCASTER LA1 4XS, United Kingdom.
Telephone: +44(0)1524 68765
Fax: +44(0)1524 63232
Email: sales@gazellebooks.co.uk
Web: www.gazellebooks.co.uk
| Title: | Over (T)here
: Transatlantic Essays in Honor of Rob Kroes |
| Series: | (European Contributions to American Studies, Volume 60) |
| Author: | Kate Delaney & Ruud Janssens (eds) |
| ISBN: | 905383978X : 9789053839782 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 202 |
| Weight: | .394 Kg. |
| Published: | V U University Press - December 2005 |
| List Price: | 25.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | American studies |
In this volume European and American scholars reflect on mutual cultural interpenetrations over the past centuries: European culture in the U.S., American culture in Europe. The exchange of people, images, and ideas has been unceasing, and the resulting cultural transformations continue to reverberate in politics, literature, art, media, religion, commerce, and education. The field of American Studies and the related disciplines of literature and history also come in for fresh and thought-provoking scrutiny from both sides of the Atlantic. All of these concerns find a common home in the scholarship and teaching of Rob Kroes, the founding editor of this series, and his work has inspired the essays in this volume and made a permanent contribution to American Studies worldwide.
Introduction; "Echoes Resounding": Rob Kroes and American Studies; Ethnic Palimpsest; Ethnographesis: Ethnic Identity, Sexual Identity, Metaphor, Metonymy; The Persistence of (an) Ethnicity: Nativism Revisited; Are We There Yet? Immigration to "America" in Post-Cold War Cinema; London's American Exhibition of 1887: How a Cultural Farce Became a Political Force; Reflections on Transatlantic Photography Including the Case of Emil Otto; Let's Make Things Better: Hyper-Americanness in Dutch Pop-Culture; Salvation, Certainly, But On Whose Terms? Adapting the Marshall Plan to European Reality; From New Deal Propaganda to National Vernacular: Pare Lorentz and the Construction of an American Public Culture; A Nation with the Soul of a Church? The Strange Career of Religion in America: A View from Europe; Is American Studies Anti-American?; Americanisation, Anti-Americanism, and American Studies; The Aboutness of Fiction; Reliving the Past and Rethinking History; Bibliography of the writings of Rob Kroes.
