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American 'unculture' in French drama : homo americanus and the post-1960 French resistance

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[NT 47348] Title Information:	homo americanus and the post-1960 French resistance
[NT 47261] Author:	EssifLes.,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2013
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resourceill. :
[NT 47266] Subject:	French drama - History and criticism. - 20th century -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137299031An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
[NT 51398] Summary:	Representation of American characters and spaces in French plays have increased dramatically in number, nature and nuance since the 1960s, and this book explores the role that 'America' plays in the French imagination, as it translates on the French stage. The book begins with an introduction that brings together a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, including Baudrillard's concepts of American 'unculture' and 'hyperreality,' Debray's "homo americanus", and Eagleton's distinction between a dialectical culture and an undialectical one. The following four chapters are organized according to the dominant theme of each of the plays: America as a hyperreal western frontier; "homo americanus" and war and violence; Americano-global business; and America as spectacle and counter-communal. The book examines how a range of prominent post-1960 French playwrights (such as Gatti, Benedetto, Cixous and Vinaver) represent an American 'unculture' - a mass US culture of capitalist consumerism, image, spectacle and international imperialism - and offers a valuable comparative study of American and French contemporary society and culture.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9781137299031electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	1137299037electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Introduction: Part 1 Introduction: Part 2 1: The Hyperreality Of The Western Frontier 2: "Homo Americanus" War And Violence 3: The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy Of Americano-Global Business 4: The (Supra-)Global Spectacle Of American (Non-)Community Conclusion: Blob, Screen, And Corn: Final Figures of the "Homo Americanus" Hyperreal.

American 'unculture' in French drama : homo americanus and the post-1960 French resistance
Essif, Les.

American 'unculture' in French drama : homo americanus and the post-1960 French resistance / Les Essif. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 1 online resource ; ill..
Introduction: Part 1.
Includes bibliographical references..
ISBN 9781137299031ISBN 1137299037
French drama -- History and criticism. -- 20th century

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