Looking for America [[electronic resource] ] : the visual production of nation and people / / edited by Ardis Cameron

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.91/022/2; 973.910222
• Soggetto topico: Visual communication - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Arts and society - United States - History - 20th century; National characteristics, American
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 20th century; United States Social conditions 20th century
• Altri autori: CameronArdis
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Looking for America
• ISBN: 1-281-21455-8; 9786611214555; 0-470-79788-6; 0-470-77488-6; 1-4051-3772-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145258903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II