Apr 26, 2009
Jaap Kooijman has received the ASCA Book Award 2009 for Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (AUP 2008). The annual award is given to an outstanding book published by a member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Kooijman examines the global dominance of American pop culture and its local appropriations. Written in an accessible style, the book cleverly shows how politics and popular culture are intertwined. The author perceives Americanization as a dynamic process, recognizing both its imperialistic character as well as its promise for productive appropriation on local level.
Recently, Kooijman has promoted the book by giving public lectures, including a keynote lecture at the Appropriating America, Making Europe conference of the European Science Foundation in Amsterdam (16 January 2009), and book talks at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Minnesota (10 March 2009) and the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (6 April 2009).
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Mar 1, 2006
Jaap Kooijman has won the 2006 article award of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis for his essay “Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom,” published in Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat (editors), Shooting the family: Transnational Media and Intercultural values, Amsterdam: AUP 2005. As the jury report says: “Kooijman presents an original analysis of how François Ozon’s film Sitcom recognizes the ‘queerness’ of the traditional nuclear family by introducing the ’sexually non-normative’ (the gay son) and ‘racial other’ (the Spanish maid and the African gym teacher) literally into the family portrait. His analysis of the film is intertextually informed by an in-depth knowledge of the television genre that Ozon’s film refers to, the sitcom, and other films that address the same them of the disruption of the western nuclear family. Written in an elegant and accessible style, the article presents not only a very rich analysis of developments in media representations with respect to the family and (the disruption of) its normative public facade, but also gives insight in larger discourses in society about the family that slowly start to change and open up to its ‘queer’ members.”
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