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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456937703321

Autore

Hawkins Stephanie L. <1971->

Titolo

American iconographic [[electronic resource] ] : National Geographic, global culture, and the visual imagination / / Stephanie L. Hawkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010

ISBN

1-280-49003-9

9786613585264

0-8139-2975-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Cultural frames, framing culture

Disciplina

910.5

Soggetti

Discoveries in geography - Press coverage

Photography in ethnology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

National geographic : the icon and its readers -- Training the "I" to see : progressive education, visual literacy, and National Geographic membership -- Savage visions : ethnography, photography, and local-color fiction in National geographic -- Fracturing the global family romance : National geographic, World War I, and fascism -- Jungle housekeeping : globalization, domesticity, and performing the "primitive" in National geographic -- National geographic's romance in ruins : from the catastrophic sublime to camp.