LEADER 04142nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910145258903321 005 20170814181403.0 010 $a1-281-21455-8 010 $a9786611214555 010 $a0-470-79788-6 010 $a0-470-77488-6 010 $a1-4051-3772-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000401295 035 $a(EBL)228580 035 $a(OCoLC)475936803 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197154 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231769 035 $a(PQKB)10568612 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC228580 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7076178 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7076178 035 $a(PPN)151084122 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000401295 100 $a20040723d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLooking for America$b[electronic resource] $ethe visual production of nation and people /$fedited by Ardis Cameron 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-1465-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a5 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 327 $a10 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 330 $aLooking 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 606 $aVisual communication$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArts and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, American 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aVisual communication$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aArts and society$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, American. 676 $a973.91/022/2 676 $a973.910222 701 $aCameron$b Ardis$0968018 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910145258903321 996 $aLooking for America$92198477 997 $aUNINA