Special Relations : The Americanization of Britain?

Howard Malchow

ISBN 10: 0804773998 / ISBN 13: 9780804773997

Editore: Stanford University Press Feb 2011, 2011

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Neuware - A study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, 'Special Relations' explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia.

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• Titolo: Special Relations : The Americanization of Britain?
• Editore: Stanford University Press Feb 2011
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804773998
• ISBN 13: 9780804773997
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical era of mass tourism, professional exchange, and media globalization—while acknowledging an important degree of cultural hybridity and circularity. The study begins with the influence of American modernism in the built environment and in "Swinging London" generally, and then moves to its central project, the re-exploration of British counterculture—the anti-war movement, student rebellion, hippies, popular music, the alternative press, and the late Sixties triad of black, feminist, and gay liberationisms—as intimately tied to American experience and to American agents of cultural change. Special Relations retrieves these phenomena as more central and enduring in British metropolitan life than the current orthodoxy allows, and subjects to sharp critical scrutiny prevalent assertions of cultural "authenticity" in their British variants. Finally, the book looks at aspects of the turn against modernism and the counterculture in the 1970s.

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H. L. Malchow is Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University.

H. L. Malchow is Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University.