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The French Way : How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power /

There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kuisel, Richard F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Note on anti-Americanism
  • America à la mode: the 1980s
  • Anti-Americanism in retreat: Jack Lang, cultural imperialism, and the anti-anti-Americans
  • Reverie and rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush
  • The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds in the land of the Gauls
  • Taming the hyperpower: the 1990s
  • The French way: society, economy and culture in the 1990s
  • The paradox of the fin de siecle: anti-Americanism and Americanization.