Public Culture : Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Shaffer, Marguerite S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
National characteristics, American > Congresses.
Public spaces > United States > Congresses.
Community life > United States > Congresses.
Democracy > United States > Congresses.
Cultural pluralism > United States > Congresses.
Political culture > United States > Congresses.
Popular culture > United States > Congresses.
United States > Social conditions > Congresses.
United States > Civilization > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : why public culture? / Marguerite S. Shaffer
  • What is public culture? : agency and contested meaning in American culture : an introduction / Mary Kupiec Cayton
  • pt I. Public action
  • 1. Looking for the public in time and space : the case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the eighteenth century to the present / Mary P. Ryan
  • 2. Remembrance, contestation, excavation : the work of memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Edward T. Linenthal
  • 3. Public sentiments and the American remembrance of World War II / John Bodnar
  • pt. II. Public image
  • 4. Sponsorship and snake oil : medicine shows and contemporary public culture / Susan Strasser
  • 5. Entertainment wars : television culture after 9/11 / Lynn Spigel
  • 6. Screening pornography / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
  • pt. III. Public space
  • 7. The Billboard war : gender, commerce, and public space / Catherine Gudis
  • 8. The social space of shopping : mobilizing dreams for public culture / Sharon Zukin
  • 9. Gates, barriers, and the rise of affinity : parsing public-private space in postindustrial America / Hal Rothman
  • pt. IV. Public identity
  • 10. To serve the living : the public and civic identity of African American funeral directors / Suzanne Smith
  • 11. Denizenship as transnational practice / Rachel Ida Buff
  • 12. The queen's mirrors : public identity and the process of transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Mary E. Frederickson
  • Epilogue : pitfalls and promises : wither the "public" in America? / Sheila L. Croucher
  • Notes
  • List of contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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