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Compare [[It Came From Beverly Hills]]
Contrast [[Eagle Land]] -- this trope refers to titles that try to induce that American idea...''in America''!
Not to be confused with [[Market-Based Title]].
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== Of the straightforward variety ===
=== [[Film]] ==
* ''American Cousins''
* ''[[American Graffiti]]''
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* ''Made In America''
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html?cid=244 American Romance]''
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''The American Embassy'' (which was set in London - ironically, the series was never screened on British television)
* ''The American Girls'' (about two correspondents for a newsmagazine called ''The American Report'' - this series aired in the UK as ''Have Girls, Will Travel'')
* ''Love, American Style''
=== [[Music]] ===
* ''American Beauty'' (the Grateful Dead album)
** One presumes the pasta brand and the flower (a type of rose, and the ultimate namesake of all the others) are also intended to be interpreted in a straightforward fashion.
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* "American Girls", a single off of the [[Counting Crows]] album ''Hard Candy''
=== [[Radio]] ===
* ''[[This American Life]]''
* ''Letter From America''
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The civics parts of [[School House Rock]], "America Rock"
=== Real Life ===
* ''American Greetings''
== Of the subversive variety ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* ''American Century''
* ''American Flagg!''
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* ''[[American Vampire]]''
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[American Beauty]]'' (the movie)
* ''[[An American Carol]]''
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* ''Team America: World Police''
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''An American Tragedy''
* ''[[American Psycho (Literature)|American Psycho]]''
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[American Dreams (TV)|American Dreams]]''
* ''[[American Horror Story]]''
=== [[Music]] ===
* ''American Idiot''
* ''American Jesus''
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* ''American Woman''
=== Other ===
* ''American Television''
* ''Americano'' (the implication of the name is that Americans can't handle espresso unless it's watered down)
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* ''American Dream'', play by George O'Neil
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Alan Wake|Alan Wake's American Nightmare]]''
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''
* ''[[The Adventures of the American Rabbit]]''
== Art ==
* ''American Gothic'', a painting named after the architectural style American Gothic, which is the style of the house featured.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''American Virgin'', in the later issues
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[An American Werewolf in London (Film)|An American Werewolf in London]]''
* ''American Hardcore'', a documentary of the American punk scene
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]''
* ''The Ugly American'', in which the title character is physically unattractive but one of the nicest people (not to mention Americans) in the book
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* [[The Office (TV)|The Office: An American Workplace]]: when aired in the UK anyway, to differentiate from the original British version.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Cruisn USA]]''
* ''"Super Mario USA"'' is a subversion since the game describes the version of [[Doki Doki Panic (Video Game)|Doki Doki Panic]] that came out in that country, where it's known as ''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]''. This was to distinguish it from the [[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels (Video Game)|Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[http://jjrowland.com/archive/20070413.html American]'' ''[http://www.wigu.com/tvnc/?date=20050124 Platypus]''
* ''[[American Elf]]''
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[David Gonterman|American Kitsune]]''
* There's a [[YouTube]] video called ''American [[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'', intended as a parody of [[Macekre|what Warner Bros. will do to Akira]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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