TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berthold,Dennis
AU  - Franchot,Jenny
AU  - Hutner,Gordon
AU  - Limon,Jose E.
AU  - Lott,Eric
AU  - Reynolds,Larry J.
AU  - Samuels,Shirley
AU  - Taylor,Bryan C.
AU  - Tichi,Cecelia
AU  - Trachtenberg,Alan
AU  - Wallace,Maurice
TI  - National Imaginaries, American Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography 
SN  - 9780691227726
AV  - E169.1 .N385 2000
U1  - 973 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Americains
KW  - Arts and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Arts et societe
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Identite collective
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Symbolism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Symbolisme
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Ground Zero
KW  - American Opinion
KW  - Angel Face
KW  - Anglo-African Magazine
KW  - Art and Illusion
KW  - Atomic Spaces
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Billy Budd
KW  - Democratic Review
KW  - Double Indemnity
KW  - Encyclopedia
KW  - Enola
KW  - Film noir
KW  - Grandissimes
KW  - Gunsmoke
KW  - Harper's Weekly
KW  - Hiroshima in America
KW  - Little Lone Star
KW  - Mildred Pierce
KW  - Nation
KW  - Othello
KW  - Our Lives, Our Children
KW  - Our National Parks
KW  - Photography
KW  - Picture Theory
KW  - Politics
KW  - Studies in Iconology
KW  - Touch of Evil
KW  - Tribune
KW  - Uncle Tom's Cabin
KW  - ambivalence
KW  - clergyman
KW  - cultural iconography
KW  - discursive processes
KW  - effects
KW  - fabulously textual
KW  - her own
KW  - hibakusha
KW  - immemorial personage
KW  - insomnia
KW  - metapictures
KW  - nautical Murats
KW  - organization
KW  - oversight
KW  - patriarch
KW  - phallic
KW  - relationships
KW  - seclusion
KW  - vaquero
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 attention than other modes of depicting American life. Recently, scholars in the humanities have developed a new critical approach to reading images and the cultural work they perform. This practice, American cultural iconography, is generating sophisticated analyses of how images organize our public life. The contributions to this volume exhibit the extraordinary scope and interpretive power of this interdisciplinary study while illuminating the dark corners of the nation's psyche. Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerreotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to teach us who we are and who we are not. They examine mimesis in elegant portraits of black Freemasons, industrial-age representations of national parks, and postwar photographs of atomic destruction. They consider how visual culture has described and disclosed the politics of racialized sexuality, whether subconsciously affirming it in the shadows of film noir or deliberately contesting it through the interethnic incest of John Sayles's Lone Star. Students of literature, film, and history will find that these essays extend the frontier of American studies. The contributors are Maurice Wallace, Dennis Berthold, Alan Trachtenberg, Shirley Samuels, Jenny Franchot, Cecelia Tichi, Eric Lott, Bryan C. Taylor, and José E. Limón
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