1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154284703321

Autore

Campbell Mary <1974->

Titolo

Charles Ellis Johnson and the erotic Mormon image / / Mary Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, [Illinois] ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-226-41017-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

770.92

Soggetti

Mormons in art

Polygamy - Religious aspects - Mormons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Royal Saint -- 2 Civil Saints -- 3 Johnson’s New Century Girls -- 4 Mormon Harems -- 5 Lady Saints -- 6 Stereoscopic Saints -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the church’s favorite photographers, Johnson (1857–1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism’s most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his “spicy pictures of girls.” Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation’s mainstream after the scandal of polygamy. Engaging, interdisciplinary, and deeply researched, Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image



demonstrates the profound role pictures played in the creation of both the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the modern American nation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827643403321

Autore

Feinberg Matthew I.

Titolo

From the theater to the plaza : spectacle, protest, and urban space in twenty-first-century Madrid / / Matthew I. Feinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-2280-1236-8

0-2280-1237-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Public spaces

Theater and society

Lavapiés (Madrid, Spain)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Stage of a Nation : The Urban Theater of Madrid -- From Lavapiés to Madrid : The Populist Myth of "Lo castizo" -- The Global Stage of Madrid : The Teatro Valle-Inclán and the Rehabilitation of Lavapiés -- Resisting the Spectacle : The Practiced City of the Laboratorio 03 -- The Representational Space of the City : Lavapiés in the Theater.

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods. By linking its role as a site and subject of Madrid's theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, Feinberg offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the contemporary city.