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UNISA990003238650203316 |
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GARDNER, K.L. |
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A programmed vector algebra / K.L. Gardner |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1969 |
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XIV, varia numer. : ill. ; 25 cm |
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UNISA996218615703316 |
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Looking for America : the visual production of nation and people / / edited by Ardis Cameron |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2005] |
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©2005 |
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1-281-21455-8 |
9786611214555 |
0-470-79788-6 |
0-470-77488-6 |
1-4051-3772-X |
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1 online resource (410 p.) |
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Visual communication - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
Arts and society - United States - History - 20th century |
National characteristics, American |
United States Civilization 20th century |
United States Social conditions 20th century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suggested Readings; PART I: 1860-1900; Modern Types; 1 Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life; 2 Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation; Suggested Readings; PART II: 1900-1940; The Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Camera; 3 Photographing the ''American Negro'': Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900; 4 Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography; ''The Eye of Power'': Cross-Class Looking |
5 Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-19156 Margaret Bourke-White's Red Coat; or, Slumming in the Thirties; Suggested Readings; PART III: 1940-2000; Home and Nation: Imagining the ''All-American'' Family; 7 ''The Kind of People who Make Good Americans'': Nationalism and Life's Family Ideal; 8 Visual Culture and Working-Class Community: Photography and the Organizing of the Steelworkers' Union in Chicago; 9 Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker; The Eye of Difference: The Politics of Appearance |
10 The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare11 Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews; Troubling Sights (Sites): Visual Maps and America's ''Others''; 12 The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes; 13 When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of Othered Places; Suggested Readings; Appendix A: ''Reading the Visual Record''; Appendix B: List of Visual Archives; Index |
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Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the "visual" in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of "others" Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to ""read"" an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related fields eager to i |
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