American visual cultures / edited by David Holloway and John Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holloway, David, 1967-

Beck, John, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--United States.

Arts and society.

United States.

Arts, American--19th century.

Arts, American.

Arts, American--20th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]

Summary:

Illustrated throughout, the book combines a wide range of critical approaches and is made up of new essays by internationally renowned scholars. A general introduction, in which the editors discuss the theoretical and pedagogical approaches shaping the contemporary study of visual culture, with particular reference to the United States, is followed by four sections, each covering a defined chronological period: 1861-1929; 1929-1963; 1963-1980; 1980 to the present. Each section opens with an introduction by the editors, giving historical and cultural context and highlighting thematic and pedagogical links between essays. An annotated bibliography of suggested further reading completes this invaluable and unique resource for the student and teacher of modern American art, media and culture.

Contents:

General Introduction: Towards a Social Theory of American Visual Cultures / David Holloway, John Beck 1

Part 1 1861-1929

Manifest Destiny and Visual Culture: Photographing American Indians: Repression and Revision / Mick Gidley 21

Visualizing Women in the Civil War: Unsexed Amazons and Desperadoes: Imaging Public War Women and Imagining Female Warriors in the American Civil War / Cynthia Wiedemann Empen 31

Renegotiating Masculinity after the Civil War: Absent Fathers and Women with Beards: Religion and Gender in Popular Imagery of the Nineteenth Century / David Morgan 39

Visualizing 'America' as 'Progress' at the end of the Western Frontier: Painting the Nation: American Art at the White City / Christopher Gair 48

Alternative Racial Gazes in American Silent Cinema: Visualizing Racial Politics in the Films of D. W. Griffith and Oscar Micheaux / Charlene Regester 56

Visualizing Dissent in World War 1: Modernism, and the End of 'Liberal' Progressivism, in Art from the Masses (1911-1917) / David Holloway 63

The Avant-Garde and the Market: Debating Modernism: Art and American Advertising in the 1920s / Don McComb 73

Part 2 1929-1963

The New Deal and Film: Debating the New Deal: Gold Diggers of 1933 and My Man Godfrey / Michael Ryan 89

Painting and the New Deal: Art and Work on the WPA / Joan Saab 98

The New Deal and Photography: Liberal Documentary Goes to School: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Students, Teachers and Schools / Eric Margolis 107

Supporting Dictatorship in World War 2 News: 'Flash From Brazil' - 1940s' Newsreels Present Latin America / Pennee Bender 116

The Emergence of TV as a New Mass Medium: The Birth of American Televisual Spectatorship / Cat Celebrezze 125

Negotiating the Cold War in Film: The Other Side of Hollywood's Cold War: Images of Dissent in the 1950s / Tony Shaw 133

Cold War 'Containment Culture' and Photography: Robert Frank's The Americans and the 1950s / Neil Campbell 142

Reading Abstract Expressionist Art: Aesthetics, Politics and 'Cultural Theory': Barnet Newman's Utopian Painting / David A. Wragg 150

Part 3 1963-1980

Visualizing Political Struggle: Civil Rights-era Photography / Deborah Willis 166

Towards Postmodernism: Post-World War 2 Photography in America: From Committed to Solipsistic Art / Jean Kempf, Bruno Chalifour 174

Visual Violence in History and Art: Zapruder, Warhol, and the Accident of Images / John Beck 183

New Modes of Dissent in Art of the 1960s and 1970s: Visual Culture and Strategies of Resistance: from Semina to Heresies / Francis Frascina 190

Photographing the Vietnam War: Democratic Accountability and Liberal Representation in American Iconic Photography: the Image of 'Accidental Napalm' / Robert Hariman, John Louis Lucaites 199

'Commodity Feminism' in 1960s' Visual Culture: Sex, Style and Single Girls / Bill Osgerby 209

New Genre Forms in 'New Hollywood' Film: Partly Truth and Partly Fiction: The Western, the City Movie and the American 1970s / Linnie Blake 216

Part 4 1980-2001

Marketing 'Post-Fordism': Advertising the Global Economy / Katherine Johnson 232

Commodifying Latin America in NAFTA-era Film: The World According to Miramax: Chocolate, Poetry and Neoliberal Aesthetics / Sophia A. McClennen 241

Visualizing 'Memory' in the Age of Global Capital: A Taste for Black and White: Visuality, Digital Culture and the Anxieties of the Global / Paul Grainge 249

Remembering Vietnam in the 1980s: White Skin, White Masks: Vietnam War Films and the Racialized Gaze / LeiLani Nishime 257

Queer' Photography and the 'Culture Wars': Robert Mapplethorpe's Queer Aesthetic of the Pair / Denis Flannery 265

Transnationalism in Contemporary African American Photography: Memory, History and 'Universal' Narrative in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems / Maren Stange 274

Anthropology at the Movies: Jerry Maguire as 'Expeditionary Discourse' / Jonathan Gayles, S. Elizabeth Bird 284

Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary TV: 'What's Sex Got To Do With It?': Signifying Post-Feminism in Sex and the City / Anna Gough-Yates 291

Constructing History in TV News from Clinton to 9/11: Flashframes of History - American Visual Memories / Andrew Hoskins 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-337) and index.

ISBN:

082646484X

0826464858

9780826464859

OCLC:

56920519