Ebook: After the American century: the ends of U.S. culture in the Middle East
Author: Edwards Brian T
- Tags: Civilization, Culture diffusion, Culture diffusion--Middle East, Ethnic attitudes, Ethnic attitudes--Middle East, Globalization--Social aspects, Globalization--Social aspects--Middle East, International relations, Orientalism, Orientalism--United States, Popular culture, Popular culture--Middle East, Popular culture--United States, United States -- Relations -- Middle East, Middle East -- Relations -- United States, Popular culture -- United States, Popular culture -- Middle East, Orientalism -- United States, Et
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: Middle East;United States
- Language: English
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"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 Now, in the digital twenty-first century, the American century has been superseded, as American movies, music, video games, and television shows are received, understood, and transformed in unexpected ways. How do we make sense of this shift? Building on a decade of fieldwork in Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran, Brian T. Edwards maps new routes of cultural exchange that are innovative, accelerated, and full of diversions. Shaped by the digital revolution, these paths are entwined with the growing fragility of American 'soft' power. They indicate an era after the American century, in which popular American products and phenomena--such as comic books, teen romances, social-networking sites, and ways of expressing sexuality--are stripped of their associations with the United States and recast in very different forms. Arguing against those who talk about a world in which American culture is merely replicated or appropriated, Edwards focuses on creative moments of uptake, in which Arabs and Iranians make something unpredicted. He argues that these products do more than extend the reach of the original. They reflect a world in which culture endlessly circulates and gathers new meanings"--Publisher's website.;After the American century : ends of circulation -- Jumping publics : Egyptian fictions of the digital age -- Argo fuck yourself : Iranian cinema and the curious logics of circulation -- Coming out in Casablanca : Shrek, sex, and the teen pic in contemporary Morocco -- Epilogue: Embracing orientalism in the homeland.
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