National Imaginaries, American Identities : The Cultural Work of American Iconography /

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From the American Revolution to the present, the United States has enjoyed a rich and persuasive visual culture. These images have constructed, sustained, and disseminated social values and identities, but this unwieldy, sometimes untidy form of cultural expression has received less systematic atten...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berthold, Dennis (Contribuidor), Franchot, Jenny (Contribuidor), Hutner, Gordon (Editor ), Limon, Jose E. (Contribuidor), Lott, Eric (Contribuidor), Reynolds, Larry J. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Samuels, Shirley (Contribuidor), Taylor, Bryan C. (Contribuidor), Tichi, Cecelia (Contribuidor), Trachtenberg, Alan (Contribuidor), Wallace, Maurice (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Americains.
Arts and society > United States > History.
Arts et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Group identity > United States > History.
Identite collective > États-Unis > Histoire.
National characteristics, American.
Symbolism > Social aspects > United States > History.
Symbolisme > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American Ground Zero.
American Opinion.
Angel Face.
Anglo-African Magazine.
Art and Illusion.
Atomic Spaces.
Autobiography.
Billy Budd.
Democratic Review.
Double Indemnity.
Encyclopedia.
Enola.
Film noir.
Grandissimes.
Gunsmoke.
Harper's Weekly.
Hiroshima in America.
Little Lone Star.
Mildred Pierce.
Nation.
Othello.
Our Lives, Our Children.
Our National Parks.
Photography.
Picture Theory.
Politics.
Studies in Iconology.
Symbolism.
Touch of Evil.
Tribune.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
ambivalence.
clergyman.
cultural iconography.
discursive processes.
effects.
fabulously textual.
her own.
hibakusha.
immemorial personage.
insomnia.
metapictures.
nautical Murats.
organization.
oversight.
patriarch.
phallic.
relationships.
seclusion.
vaquero.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction American Cultural Iconography
  • PART ONE: BETWEEN IMAGE AND NARRATIVE: FIGURING AMERICAN COLLECTIVITY
  • CHAPTER 1 Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables
  • Chapter 2 Nuclear Pictures and Metapictures
  • CHAPTER 3 Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America
  • Chapter 4 Melville, Garibaldi, and the Medusa of Revolution
  • PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND THEIR OTHERS: THE POLITICS OF RACIALIZED GENDER AND SEXUALITY
  • Chapter 5 Miscegenated America: The Civil War
  • Chapter 6 The Whiteness of Film Noir
  • Chapter 7 "Are We Men?": Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865
  • Chapter 8 Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon
  • Chapter 9 Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality

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