LEADER 06117nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910779254503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89818-7 010 $a0-8122-0684-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206845 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104653 035 $a(EBL)3441705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407229 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10689330 035 $a(PQKB)11652311 035 $a(OCoLC)808349339 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19575 035 $a(DE-B1597)449481 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938929 035 $a(OCoLC)979724283 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441705 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576480 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421068 035 $a(OCoLC)843076417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441705 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104653 100 $a20080225d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPublic culture$b[electronic resource] $ediversity, democracy, and community in the United States /$fedited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $a"This book grew out of a conference held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in March 2003, entitled "The Transformation of Public Culture : Assessing the Politics of Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, 1890 to the Present"--Pref. 311 $a0-8122-2202-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface. Why Public Culture? / $rShaffer, Marguerite S. -- $tWhat Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction / $rKupiec Cayton, Mary -- $tPART I. Public Action -- $tChapter 1. Looking for the Public in Time and Space: The Case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / $rRyan, Mary P. -- $tChapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / $rLinenthal, Edward T. -- $tChapter 3. Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II / $rBodnar, John -- $tPART II. Public Image -- $tChapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture / $rStrasser, Susan -- $tChapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 / $rSpigel, Lynn -- $tChapter 6. Screening Pornography / $rKyong Chun, Wendy Hui -- $tPART III. Public Space -- $tChapter 7. The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space / $rGudis, Catherine -- $tChapter 8. The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture / $rZukin, Sharon -- $tChapter 9. Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America / $rRothman, Hal -- $tPART IV. Public Identity -- $tChapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors / $rSmith, Suzanne -- $tChapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice / $rBuff, Rachel Ida -- $tChapter 12. The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / $rFrederickson, Mary E. -- $tEpilogue. Pitfalls and Promises: Whither the "Public" in America? / $rCroucher, Sheila L. -- $tNotes -- $tContributors -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with its diversity and inequalities, can there be a shared public culture? Is there an unbridgeable gap between cultural variety and civic unity, or can public forms of expression provide an opportunity for Americans to come together as a people?In Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, an interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses these questions while considering the state of American public culture over the past one hundred years. From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, public sights and scenes provide ways to negotiate new forms of belonging in a diverse, postmodern community. By analyzing these cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume reveal how mass media, consumerism, increased privatization of space, and growing political polarization have transformed public culture and the very notion of the American public.Focusing on four central themes-public action, public image, public space, and public identity-and approaching shared culture from a range of disciplines-including mass communication, history, sociology, urban studies, ethnic studies, and cultural studies-Public Culture offers refreshing perspectives on a subject of perennial significance. 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aCultural pluralism$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aCommunity life$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aPublic spaces$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aNational characteristics, American$vCongresses 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$vCongresses 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$vCongresses 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aCommunity life 615 0$aPublic spaces 615 0$aNational characteristics, American 676 $a306.0973 701 $aShaffer$b Marguerite S$01515785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779254503321 996 $aPublic culture$93751790 997 $aUNINA