Public culture [[electronic resource] ] : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States / / edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ShafferMarguerite S |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States
Political culture - United States Cultural pluralism - United States Democracy - United States Community life - United States Public spaces - United States National characteristics, American |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-89818-7
0-8122-0684-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Why Public Culture? / Shaffer, Marguerite S. -- What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction / Kupiec Cayton, Mary -- PART I. Public Action -- Chapter 1. Looking for the Public in Time and Space: The Case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Ryan, Mary P. -- Chapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Linenthal, Edward T. -- Chapter 3. Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II / Bodnar, John -- PART II. Public Image -- Chapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture / Strasser, Susan -- Chapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 / Spigel, Lynn -- Chapter 6. Screening Pornography / Kyong Chun, Wendy Hui -- PART III. Public Space -- Chapter 7. The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space / Gudis, Catherine -- Chapter 8. The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture / Zukin, Sharon -- Chapter 9. Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America / Rothman, Hal -- PART IV. Public Identity -- Chapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors / Smith, Suzanne -- Chapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice / Buff, Rachel Ida -- Chapter 12. The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Frederickson, Mary E. -- Epilogue. Pitfalls and Promises: Whither the "Public" in America? / Croucher, Sheila L. -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452907503321 |
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public culture [[electronic resource] ] : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States / / edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ShafferMarguerite S |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States
Political culture - United States Cultural pluralism - United States Democracy - United States Community life - United States Public spaces - United States National characteristics, American |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Political Science |
ISBN |
1-283-89818-7
0-8122-0684-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Why Public Culture? / Shaffer, Marguerite S. -- What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction / Kupiec Cayton, Mary -- PART I. Public Action -- Chapter 1. Looking for the Public in Time and Space: The Case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Ryan, Mary P. -- Chapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Linenthal, Edward T. -- Chapter 3. Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II / Bodnar, John -- PART II. Public Image -- Chapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture / Strasser, Susan -- Chapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 / Spigel, Lynn -- Chapter 6. Screening Pornography / Kyong Chun, Wendy Hui -- PART III. Public Space -- Chapter 7. The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space / Gudis, Catherine -- Chapter 8. The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture / Zukin, Sharon -- Chapter 9. Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America / Rothman, Hal -- PART IV. Public Identity -- Chapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors / Smith, Suzanne -- Chapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice / Buff, Rachel Ida -- Chapter 12. The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Frederickson, Mary E. -- Epilogue. Pitfalls and Promises: Whither the "Public" in America? / Croucher, Sheila L. -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779254503321 |
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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