National imaginaries, American identities : the cultural work of American iconography / edited by Larry J. Reynolds and Gordon Hutner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Hutner, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society.

History.

Group identity.

Symbolism--Social aspects.

Symbolism.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Civilization.

Symbolism--Social aspects--United States--History.

National characteristics, American.

Group identity--United States--History.

Arts and society--United States--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]

Summary:

"This volume constitutes an important, very teachable collection, and will come to serve as a central reference for both scholars and students in the fields of American Studies, American Art History, Film Studies, and African-American Studies."--Laura Rigal, author of "The American Manufactory

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0691009945

0691009953

OCLC:

44172838