Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Gordana P. Crnkovic is associate professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Washington.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Western EuropeChapter 3 Does Mickey Mouse threaten French Culture? The French Debate about EuroDisneylandChapter 4 Culture vs. Commerce: Europe Strives to Keep Hollywood at BayChapter 5 Fear and Fascination: American Popular Culture in a Divided Germany, 1945-1968Chapter 6 The Pendulum of Cultural Imperialism: Popular Music Interchanges between the United States and Britain, 1943-1967Chapter 7 Coca-Cola Co. and the Olympic Movement-Global or American?Chapter 8 The Impact of the American Myth among Post-War Italian Intellectuals: Modernization, post-modernity, or homologation?Chapter 9 American Missionaries to Darkest EuropePart 10 Part II: Eastern EuropeChapter 11 Appropriation of the American Gangster Film and the Transition to Capitalism: Poland's Dogs and Russia's BrotherChapter 12 Two cheers for the red, white, and blue: Hungarian Assessments of American Popular CultureChapter 13 Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream, and the Things that Shape the Way We See Each OtherChapter 14 Shake, Rattle, and Self-Management: Making the Scene in Socialist Yugoslavia, and AfterChapter 15 UFOs over Russia and Eastern EuropeChapter 16 Émigré-zation: Russian Artists and American Children's Picture BooksChapter 17 Afterword

Replete with astonishingly eloquent views on a diverse range of subjects, including religion, UFO-fixation and youth rebellion among others, this book makes compelling reading and provides a provocative platform for further discussions.