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Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture,Used
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From the pageantry of Oprah Winfreys daytime talk show to the Atlantabased CocaCola empire, American pop cultureand the contemporary films, television programs, and cultural objects that determine itdominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Absolute Fake applies elements of postmodern theoryJean Baudrillards hyperreality and Umberto Ecos absolute fake, among othersto this globally mediated American pop culture in order to examine both the phenomenon itself and its specific appropriation in the Netherlands, as evidenced by diverse cultural icons like the Elvisinspired crooner Lee Towers, the MoroccanDutch white rapper Ali B, musical tributes to an assassinated politician, and the Dutch reality soap opera scene.
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