About the author

Jaap Kooijman is an associate professor in Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His articles on American pop culture and politics have been published in journals such as The Velvet Light Trap, European Journal of Cultural Studies, The Journal of American Culture, Post Script, Journal of International Education, Presidential Studies Quaterly, GLQ, Celebrity Studies, and Thamyris, as well as in essay collections published by NYU Press, UP of Mississippi, Routledge, Ashgate, Amsterdam UP, Edinbourgh UP, Wallflower Press, and UP of Kentucky. He is the author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (AUP 2008), for which he won the 2009 ASCA Book Award. A second - extended and revised - edition was published in 2013. Together with Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven, he has edited the collection Mind the Screen (AUP 2008). Kooijman is editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies and co-founding editor of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. (Photograph by Jelle Rietveld)