04129nam 2200673 450 99621861570331620230107221344.01-281-21455-897866112145550-470-79788-60-470-77488-61-4051-3772-X(CKB)1000000000401295(EBL)228580(OCoLC)475936803(SSID)ssj0000194177(PQKBManifestationID)11197154(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194177(PQKBWorkID)10231769(PQKB)10568612(MiAaPQ)EBC228580(MiAaPQ)EBC7076178(Au-PeEL)EBL7076178(PPN)151084122(EXLCZ)99100000000040129520230107d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLooking for America the visual production of nation and people /edited by Ardis CameronMalden, Massachusetts :Blackwell Publishers,[2005]©20051 online resource (410 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-1465-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Looking5 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 Appearance10 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; IndexLooking 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 iVisual communicationSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArts and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, AmericanUnited StatesCivilization20th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions20th centuryVisual communicationSocial aspectsHistoryArts and societyHistoryNational characteristics, American.973.910222Cameron ArdisMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996218615703316Looking for America3002161UNISA