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's leading American studies scholars, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including Photographic Memories: Private Pictures, Pu...

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Main Author: Kroes, Rob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • The George W. Bush administration and European anti-Americanism
  • The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11
  • Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world
  • Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music
  • A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained
  • Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism
  • American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects
  • Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches
  • Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative
  • Taking exception.