Americanization and anti-Americanism : the German encounter with American culture after 1945 / edited by Alexander Stephan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-275) and index.

Anti-Americanism and Americanization / Russell A. Berman -- Counter-Americanism and critical currents in West German reconstruction 1945-1960: the German lesson confronts the American way of life / Michael Ermarth -- Saigon, Nuremberg, and the West: German images of America in the late 1960s / Bernd Greiner -- Resisting boogie-woogie culture, abstract expressionism, and pop art: German highbrow objections to the import of 'American' forms of culture, 1945-1965 / Jost Hermand -- From nightmare to model? why German broadcasting became Americanized / Kaspar Maase -- Learning from America: reconstructing 'race' in postwar Germany / Heide Fehrenbach -- Cinematic Americanization of the Holocaust in Germany: whose memory is it? / David Bathrick -- Anti-Americanism and the Cold War: on the DEFA Berlin films / Sabine Hake -- German cinema face to face with Hollywood: looking into a two-way mirror / Thomas Elsaesser -- Double crossings: the reciprocal relationship between American and European culture in the twentieth century / Richard Pells -- Anti-Americanism and anti-modernism in Europe: old and recent versions / Rob Kroes -- California blue: Americanization as self-Americanization / Winfried Fluck -- Awkward relations: American perceptions of Europe, European perceptions of America / Volker R. Berghahn -- Crisis or coooperation? The transatlantic relationship at a watershed / Karsten D. Voight -- Germans and Americans : understanding and managing / Bowman H. Miller.