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National imaginaries, American identities : the cultural work of American iconography /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-, Hutner, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Seeing and believing: Hawthorne's reflections on the daguerreotype in the House of the seven gables / Alan Trachtenberg
  • Nuclear pictures and metapictures / Bryan C. Taylor
  • Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: old faithful and the pulse of industrial America / Cecelia Tichi
  • Melville, Garibaldi, and the medusa of revolution / Dennis Berthold
  • Miscegenated America: the Civil War / Shirley Samuels
  • The whiteness of film noir / Eric Lott
  • "Are we men?": Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the masculine ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 / Maurice Wallace
  • Unseemly commemoration: religion, fragments, and the icon / Jenny Franchot
  • Tex-sex-mex: American identities, lone stars, and the politics of racialized sexuality / José Limón.