Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire

by Genevieve Abravanel

Book Overview

How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-during the first half of the twentieth century, Genevieve Abravanel theorizes the rise of the American Entertainment Empire as a new style of imperialism that threatened Britain's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190272414
• ISBN13: 9780190272418
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"