Jaap Kooijman

Books / Edited books and academic journals

•  Jaap Kooijman, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. [click here for reviews]
•  Jaap Kooijman, … And the Pursuit of National Health: The Incremental Strategy Toward National Health Insurance in the United States of America, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999. [click here for reviews]
• Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven (editors), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
• Jaap Kooijman and Giselinde Kuipers (editors), “Amerikaanse toestanden” special theme issue, Sociologie 4:2/3 (August 2008), in Dutch. [click here for review, in Dutch]

Articles in refereed academic journals

• Jaap Kooijman, “Americans We Never Were: Teaching American Popular Culture in the Netherlands,” Journal of American Culture 34:1 (March 2011): 16-25.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Pleasures of the Orient: Cadinot’s Maghreb as a Gay Pornotopia,” in Murat Aydemir (editor), Indiscretions: At the Intersection Between Queer and Postcolonial Theory, theme issue Thamyris/Intersecting 22 (2011): 97-112.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Fok de macht: Nederlandse popcultuur als karaoke-Amerikanisme,” Sociologie 4:2/3 (August 2008): 195-207, in Dutch.
• Jaap Kooijman and Giselinde Kuipers, “Amerikaanse toestanden!,” Sociologie 4:2/3 (August 2008): 109-114, in Dutch.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Turn the Beat Around: Richard Dyer’s ‘In Defence of Disco’ Revisited,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 8:2 (2005): 257-266.
• Jaap Kooijman, “They’re Here, They’re Queer, and Straight America Loves It,” section of Chris Straayer and Tom Waugh (editors), “Queer TV Style,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11:1 (2005): 95-117, 106-109.
• Jaap Kooijman, Jude Davies, Linda Berg-Cross, Laura Copier, and Aisha Asby, “International Education, the Internet, and the Three Kings Experiment,” Journal of Studies in International Education 8:2 (Summer 2004): 207-223.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Outside in America: George Michael’s Music Video, Public Sex, and Global Pop Culture,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 7:1 (February 2004): 27-41.
• Jaap Kooijman and Tarja Laine, “American Psycho: A Double Portrait of Serial Yuppie Patrick Bateman,” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 22:3 (Summer 2003): 46-56.
• Jaap Kooijman, “From Elegance to Extravaganza: The Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show as a Presentation of Beauty,” The Velvet Light Trap 49 (Spring 2002): 4-17.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Soon or Later On: FDR and National Health Insurance, 1933-1945,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29:2 (June 1999): 336-350.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Zo dood als Elvis Presley: Het debat over een nationale ziektekostenverzekering in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika,” De Nieuwste Tijd 12 (Fall 1999): 59-66, in Dutch.

Book chapters

• Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele, “Close Encounters: The Bible as Pre-Text in Popular Culture,” in Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright, The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010: 189-195.
• Jaap Kooijman, “The Oprahfication of 9/11: September 11, The War in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in Trystan T. Cotten and Kimberly Springer (editors), Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010: 131-143.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of National Identity and Multiculturalism in the Netherlands,” in Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul (editors), American Multiculturalism After 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009: 181-190.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Contemporary Dutch Cinema and Hollywood,” in Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (editors), Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, Amsterdam: Boom / New York: SUNY Press, 2009: 1060-1070.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping,” in Glyn Davis and Gary Needham (editors), Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics, London/New York: Routledge, 2009: 159-171.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Amsterdamned Global Village: A Cinematic Site of Karaoke Americanism,” in Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven (editors), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008: 188-197.
• Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven, “A Looking Glass for Old and New Screens,” in Kooijman, Pisters, and Strauven (editors), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008: 9-15.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Michael Jackson: Motown 25, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, March 25, 1983,” in Ian Inglis (editor), Performance and Popular Music: History, Place, and Time, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006: 119-127.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Let’s Make Things Better: Hyper-Americanness in Dutch Pop Culture,” in Kate Delaney and Ruud Janssens (editors), Over (T)here: Transatlantic Essays in Honor of Rob Kroes, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2005: 82-95.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom,” in Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat (editors), Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005: 73-87.
• Jaap Kooijman, “‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’: Diana Ross as American Pop-Cultural Icon of the 1960s,” in Avital Bloch and Lauri Umansky (editors), Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, New York: New York University Press, 2005: 152-173.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Bombs Bursting in Air: The Gulf War, 9/11, and the Super Bowl Performances of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey,” in Ruud Janssens and Rob Kroes (editors), Post-Cold War Europe, Post-Cold War America, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004: 178-193.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Triumphant Black Pop Divas on the Wide Screen: Lady Sings The Blues and Tina: What’s Love Got To Do With It,” in Ian Inglis (editor), Popular Music and Film, London / New York: Wallflower Press, 2003: 178-192.
• Jaap Kooijman, “A Juxtaposition of Conflicting Images: Hubert H. Humphrey and the Television Coverage of Chicago 1968,” in Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor (editors), Hollywood’s White House: The American Presidency in Film and History, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003: 225-240.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Travelling Star Image: The Crossovers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and RuPaul,” in Nancy Pedri (editor), Travelling Concepts III: Memory, Narrative, Image, Amsterdam: ASCA, 2003: 329-340.
• Sudeep Dasgupta and Jaap Kooijman, “Kijken ‘tussen’ twee culturen. Watching Driving Miss Palmen,” in Tessa Boerman, Patricia Pisters, and Joes Segal (editors), Beeldritsen: visuele cultuur en etnische diversiteit in Nederland, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Balie, 2003: 76-87, in Dutch.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Can’t Forget the Motor City: The Move of Motown from Detroit to Los Angeles,” in Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, and Tity de Vries (editors), The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, Amsterdam Free University Press, 2001: 214-224.
• Jaap Kooijman, “National Health Insurance,” in Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman and Henry R. Beasley (editors), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001: 365-366.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Just Forget About It: FDR’s Ambivalence Towards National Health Insurance,” in Robert A. Garson and Stuart S. Kidd (editors), The Roosevelt Years: New Perspectives on American History, 1933-1945, Edinburgh University Press, 1999: 30-41.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Licked By a Group of Doctors: The Exclusion of a National Health Insurance Program from the Social Security Act of 1935,” in Hans Bak, Frits van Holthoon, and Hans Krabbendam (editors), Social and Secure? Politics and Culture of the Welfare State: A Comparative Inquiry, Amsterdam Free University Press, 1996: 129-145.
• Jaap Kooijman, “De noodzaak van aanhalingstekens: een pleidooi voor de zogenaamde ‘political correctness’ binnen de Amerikanistiek,” in Frits van Holthoon, Wil Verhoeven, and Tity de Vries (editors), Amerikanisten: Werk in Uitvoering, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1995: 144-150, in Dutch.

Magazine and newspaper articles (in Dutch)

• Jaap Kooijman, “Wie is toch die man wiens naam op de Donald Duck staat? De verwezenlijkte utopie van Walt Disney,” Academische Boekengids 83 (november 2010): 13-14.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Andy Warhols Portraits of Paris Hilton,” Simulacrum (november 2007): 28-30.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Karaoke-amerikanisme,” De Groene Amsterdammer 131:12 (23 maart 2007): 25-28.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Emoties en commercial breaks: Het publieke debat op de Amerikaanse televisie,” Roodkoper 8:2 (zomer 2003): 37-39.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Op de bank bij Adam & Patries,” Skrien 35:2 (maart 2003): 44-45.
• Jaap Kooijman en Laura Copier, “Nog steeds niet normaal: Homo’s op televisie,” Skrien 35:5 (juni/juli 2003): 42-43.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Een standbeeld voor Pim,” Skrien 34:6 (augustus 2002): 44-45.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Paula Jones ging vrijwillig naar boven,” de Volkskrant, 10 juni 1997.
• Jaap Kooijman, “De militia’s beroepen zich op de grondwet,” VPRO-Gids, 26 oktober 1996.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Hillary mikpunt van seksisten,” de Volkskrant, 5 juli 1996.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Een traditie van oppositie,” De Gezondheidsmarkt, november 1994.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Muziek Marvin Gaye geeft een orgastische ervaring,” de Volkskrant, 5 april 1994.

 Book reviews

• Jaap Kooijman, “Terhi Rantanen, The Media and Globalization” (book review), Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap 33:4 (2005): 389-390, in Dutch.
• Jaap Kooijman, “Beyond the Innocence of Disney: Henry A. Giroux, The Mouse That Roared” (book review), European Journal of Cultural Studies 4:1 (February 2001): 115-118.