Looking for America The Visual Production of Nation and People 1st Edition by Ardis Cameron 140513772X 9781405137720

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ISBN 10: 140513772X 

ISBN 13: 9781405137720

Author: Ardis Cameron

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.

Table of contents:

PART I: 1860–1900

1 Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life

2 Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation

PART II: 1900–1940

The Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Camera

3 Photographing the ‘‘American Negro’’: Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Expositio

4 Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography

‘‘The Eye of Power’’: Cross-Class Looking

5 Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913–1

6 Margaret Bourke-White’s Red Coat; or, Slumming in the Thirties

Suggested Readings

PART III: 1940–2000

Home and Nation: Imagining the ‘‘All-American’’ Family

7 ‘‘The Kind of People who Make Good Americans’’: Nationalism and Life’s Family Ideal

8 Visual Culture and Working-Class Community: Photography and the Organizing of the Steelworkers’

9 Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker

The Eye of Difference: The Politics of Appearance

10 The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare

11 Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews

Troubling Sights (Sites): Visual Maps and America’s ‘‘Others’’

12 The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes

13 When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of Othered Places

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