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Study in Black and White : Photography, Race, Humor /
In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.Sheehan employs a trove of understudied mat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Strange Effects and Photographic Pleasures: Race, Science, and Early Photography
- 2. The Darkey Photographer: Camera Comedy and the Minstrel Stage
- 3. Look Pleasant, Please! A Social History of the Photographic Smile
- 4. Writing the Self Through Others: Racial Humor and the Photographic Postcard
- 5. Revival and Subversion: Snapshot Performances from Kodak to Kara Walker
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index