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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| American Popular Culture and Globalization | |
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| Popular Culture and Global Politics | |
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| Understanding Culture, Popular Culture, and American Culture | |
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| Anthropological Culture | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| "American" Popular Culture | |
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| Grasping Globalization | |
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| Economic Globalization and American Popular Culture | |
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| Political Globalization and American Popular Culture | |
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| Cultural Globalization and American Popular Culture | |
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| Cultural Corruption | |
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| Cultural Imperialism | |
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| Cultural Homogenization | |
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| Cultural Hybridity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| "American" Popular Culture in Movies, Music, and Television | |
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| American Civic Culture and American Popular Culture | |
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| "American" Stories | |
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| American Culture in Movies, Music, and Television | |
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| American Movies | |
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| Titanic: Class and the American Dream | |
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| Avatar: The Triumph of the Individual | |
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| Blade Runner: The Emptiness of Consumer Capitalism | |
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| American Television | |
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| The Universe of Star Trek and the Universe according to Star Trek | |
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| The West Wing and the Democratic Experiment | |
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| 24 and American Illiberalism | |
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| American Music | |
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| The Culture of Country | |
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| It's Rock and Roll | |
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| Don't Stop Hip-Hop | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Global Scope of American Movies, Music, and Television | |
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| The Movie, Music, and Television Machine in the Global Era | |
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| The Development of the Modern American Movie, Music, and Television Industries | |
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| The American Exception | |
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| A Brief History of the Movie Industry | |
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| A Brief History of the Music Industry | |
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| A Brief History of the Television Industry | |
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| The Digital Dilemma | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The American Global Cultural Brand | |
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| Franchising America | |
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| A Brief History of the Franchise | |
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| American Brands, Global Presence | |
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| A Brief Global Cultural History of Coca-Cola | |
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| A Brief Global Cultural History of McDonald's | |
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| A Brief Global Cultural History of Blue Jeans | |
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| The Emerging Global Cultural History of the NFL | |
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| Social Networking America | |
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| Everything, Everywhere, All the Time | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Global Trade and the Fear of American Popular Culture | |
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| Trading American Popular Culture | |
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| The American Argument | |
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| The Counter-American Argument | |
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| Popular Culture in International Agreements | |
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| GATT/WTO 1947-2012 | |
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| Popular Culture and the United Nations | |
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| NAFTA | |
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| American Popular Culture and Fragmegration in Four Countries | |
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| France | |
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| Iran | |
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| Venezuela | |
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| Hong Kong | |
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| Social Networks, Political Revolutions? The Case of the Arab Spring | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| American Popular Culture and the Future of Globalization | |
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| Cultural Change, Hybridity, and American Popular Culture | |
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| Types of Cultural Change | |
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| Cultural Change as Cultural Hybridity | |
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| Global Cultural Hybridity and American Popular Culture | |
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| The Future of American Popular Culture and Globalization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |