Public culture : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States / edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaffer, Marguerite S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--Congresses.

Popular culture.

Political culture--United States--Congresses.

Political culture.

Cultural pluralism--United States--Congresses.

Cultural pluralism.

Democracy--United States--Congresses.

Democracy.

Community life--United States--Congresses.

Community life.

Public spaces--United States--Congresses.

Public spaces.

National characteristics, American--Congresses.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Civilization--Congresses.

United States.

Civilization.

United States--Social conditions--Congresses.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Contents:

Preface: Why Public Culture? / Marguerite S. Shaffer ix

What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction / Mary Kupiec Cayton 1

Part I Public Action

1 Looking for the Public in Time and Space: The Case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Mary P. Ryan 29

2 Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Edward T. Linenthal 52

3 Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II / John Bodnar 67

Part II Public Image

4 Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture / Susan Strasser 91

5 Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 / Lynn Spigel 114

6 Screening Pornography / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 143

Part III Public Space

7 The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space / Catherine Gudis 171

8 The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture / Sharon Zukin 199

9 Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America / Hal Rothman 219

Part IV Public Identity

10 To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors / Suzanne Smith 249

11 Denizenship as Transnational Practice / Rachel Ida Buff 263

12 The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Mary E. Frederickson 273

Epilogue: Pitfalls and Promises: Wither the "Public" in America? / Sheila L. Croucher 303.

Notes:

"This book grew out of a conference held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in March 2003, entitled "The Transformation of Public Culture : Assessing the Politics of Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, 1890 to the Present"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-362) and index.

ISBN:

0812240812

9780812240818

OCLC:

183261894