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Ever the Twain Shall Meet, John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet;Introduction - America and Europe - a Clash of Imagined Communities, RobKroes. Part 1 The Image: Blackface Minstrels and Buffalo Bill's Wild West -19th-Century Entertainment Forms as Cultural Exports, John G. Blair; CreativeChiasmus - Comparative Evolution of US Television and Cinema Products in the1980s, Francis Bordat; A Comics Interlude, Jean-Paul Gabilliet; My Very OwnAmerica, Jean-Claude Mezieres. Part 2 Popular Music: Rocking and Rapping inthe Dutch Welfare State, Mel van Elteren; Here, There, and Everywhere - RockMusic, Mass Culture and the Counterculture, Claude Chastagner; Negotiationsand Love Songs - Towards a Verifiable Interpretation of Popular Music, KarlAdams et al. Part 3 The Written Word: Harlequin Romances in Western Europe -the Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature, Annick Capelle; Reader'sDigest - a Rosy World for Both Sides of the Atlantic, Daniel Baylon;"Seriously Lurid" - the Pitfalls of Publishing American Crime Fiction inBritain, Andrew Pepper. Part 4 Food: Pride and Prejudice - American Cuisine,the French and Godliness, Mireille Favier; "Wash Your Hands With Coca-Cola" -Coca-Cola's European Tribulations, Laurent Ditmann. Part 5 Social Customs:The Barbie Doll, Marianne Debouzy; Serial Heroes - a Sociocultural ProbingInto Excessive Consumption, Robert Conrath; The Mayflower Need Not Sail Back- the US of A is Going European, Claude-Jean Bertrand. Part 6 EthnicCultures: "America" in Popular Irish Fiction and Drama - Elements of aTranscultural Discourse, Ciaran Ross; Minorities in US Films - the New Wave60s-70s, Penny Starfield; America on My Mind, Lazare Bitoun. Part 7Americanisation: A Taste of Honey - Adorno's Reading of American MassCulture, Kaspar Maase; The Experience of Freedom and Vacuum - anAnthropologist at Euro Disney, Marc Auge; Popular Culture and Mass Culture -a Franco-European Dilemma, Jean-Marie Domenach (translated by Jean-PaulGabilliet).