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Shooting Kennedy : JFK and the culture of images / David M. Lubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lubin, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Pictorial works.
- Kennedy, John F.
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994--Pictorial works.
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination--Pictorial works.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
- Presidents--United States--Pictorial works.
- Presidents.
- Art and popular culture.
- History.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Photography--Social aspects.
- Presidents' spouses.
- Assassination.
- United States.
- Presidents' spouses--United States--Pictorial works.
- Photography--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Photography.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Art and popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- JFK and the culture of images
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Jack and Jackie sailing at Hyannis Port. President Kennedy smiling and confident with the radiant first lady by his side in Dallas shortly before the assassination. The Zapruder film. Jackie Kennedy mourning at the funeral while her small son salutes the coffin. These images have become larger than life; more than simply photographs of a president, or of celebrities, or of a tragic event, they have an extraordinary power to captivate -- today as in their own time. In Shooting Kennedy, David Lubin speculates on the allure of these and other iconic images of the Kennedys, using them to illuminate the entire American cultural landscape. He draws from a spectacularly varied intellectual and visual terrain -- neoclassical painting, Victorian poetry, modern art, Hollywood films, TV sitcoms -- to show how the public came to identify personally with the Kennedys and how, in so doing, they came to understand their place in the world. This heady mix of art history, cultural history, and popular culture offers an evocative, consistently entertaining look at twentieth-century America.
- Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Donna Reed, Playboy magazine, Jack Ruby, the Rosenbergs, and many more personalities, little-known events, and behind-the-scenes stories of the era enliven Lubin's account as he unlocks the meaning of these photographs of the Kennedys. Elegantly conceived, witty, and intellectually daring, Shooting Kennedy becomes a stylish meditation on the changing meanings of visual phenomena and the ways they affect our thinking about the past, present, and the process of history.
- Contents:
- 1 Twenty-six Seconds 1
- 2 "Gentle Be the Breeze, Calm Be the Waves" 39
- 3 A Marriage like Any Other 67
- 4 Blue Sky, Red Roses 105
- 5 Hit the Road, Jack 143
- 6 Kennedy Shot 163
- 7 The Loneliest Job in the World 193
- 8 Down in the Basement 217
- 9 Salute 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520229851
- OCLC:
- 51566368
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