Ardis Cameron

eBook, PDF

Looking for America (eBook, PDF)

The Visual Production of Nation and People

Beschreibung

Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the "visual" in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century.

• Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of "others"
• Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to "read" an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections
• Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related fields eager to incorporate the visual into their teaching-and telling-of the American story.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 4.04MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Ardis Cameron is Professor of American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine. She is author of Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring of Lawrence, 1860-1912 (1993). She received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her work in progress, Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a Big Book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-ISTE
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405137720
• Artikelnr.: 38281885

Rezensionen

"This collection is an invigorating, even stunning,revelation. I left it feeling as if I had learned a new language.Congratulations to Ardis Cameron for the creative insight withwhich she has woven together an argument for the indispensablevalue of 'looking' into the past." AliceKessler-Harris, Columbia University

"This book illuminates the role of the visual inconstructions of American national identity. Most impressive is thedemonstration that vision itself is not transparent, but aninstrument that shapes, even as it is shaped by, relations ofpower." Joan W. Scott, Institute for AdvancedStudy