NEW YORK – Barack Obama, however mixed his accomplishments to date as US president, has sought to rebrand America and reclaim its former signature asset: its ability to embody universally admired values. As popular culture is usually the way those values are transmitted, it is worth considering what it is about American cinema, music, and popular literature that makes them so compelling to many other parts of the world.
发自纽约——作为美国总统，虽然巴拉克·奥巴马目前所取得的成绩好坏参半，但他依然在努力重新包装美国并擦亮这个国家从前的金字招牌：那种实现普世价值的能力。鉴于这些价值的载体通常都是流行文化，因此我们有必要探究一下，这些美国电影，音乐以及流行文学令世界其他地方的人们如此难以抗拒的原因，究竟是些什么。