(Read download) After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East
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| #1346370 in Books | Brian T Edwards | 2015-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.90 x6.10l,1.16 | File Name: 0231174004 | 288 pages | After the American Century The Ends of U S Culture in the Middle East
||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Beginnings and Ends|By C. W. Day|One of the more delightful aspects of Brian Edwards’ writing, both in his latest book After the American Century and his previous work Morocco Bound is the open ended play of multiple meanings in both his language and his analysis. In a book that discusses the interaction between globalized American culture and local reimagination and ap||After the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed
When Henry Luce announced in 1941 that we were living in the "American century," he believed that the international popularity of American culture made the world favorable to U.S. interests. Now, in the digital twenty-first century, the American century has been superseded, as American movies, music, and video games are received, understood, and transformed.
How do we make sense of this shift? Building on a decade of fieldwork in Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran, Br...
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