Reading National geographic / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lutz, Catherine.

Contributor:

• Collins, Jane Lou, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• National geographic.
• American periodicals--History--20th century.
• American periodicals.
• History.
• Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
• Books and reading.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Summary:

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography2. Becoming America's Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century3. Inside the Great Machinery of Desire4. A World Brightly Different: Photographic Conventions, 1950-19865. Fashions in the Ethnic Other6. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender7. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes8. The Readers' Imagined Geographic: An Evolutionary Tale9. The Pleasures and Possibilities of ReadingEpilogueAppendix A: Photograph CodesAppendix B: Photographs Discussed in InterviewsReferencesIndex

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

ISBN:

• 0226497232
• 0226497240

OCLC:

27109243