Explores American influences not only on European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also on youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Western Europe Chapter 3 Does Mickey Mouse threaten French Culture? The French Debate about EuroDisneyland Chapter 4 Culture vs. Commerce: Europe Strives to Keep Hollywood at Bay Chapter 5 Fear and Fascination: American Popular Culture in a Divided Germany, 1945-1968 Chapter 6 The Pendulum of Cultural Imperialism: Popular Music Interchanges between the United States and Britain, 1943-1967 Chapter 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 Europe Part 10 Part II: Eastern Europe Chapter 11 Appropriation of the American Gangster Film and the Transition to Capitalism: Poland's Dogs and Russia's Brother Chapter 12 Two cheers for the red, white, and blue: Hungarian Assessments of American Popular Culture Chapter 13 Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream, and the Things that Shape the Way We See Each Other Chapter 14 Shake, Rattle, and Self-Management: Making the Scene in Socialist Yugoslavia, and After Chapter 15 UFOs over Russia and Eastern Europe Chapter 16 Emigre-zation: Russian Artists and American Children's Picture Books Chapter 17 Afterword