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Wanted : the outlaw in American visual culture / Rachel Hall.
LIBRA NC1849.W36 H35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Rachel, 1974-
- Series:
- Cultural frames, framing culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wanted posters--United States.
- Wanted posters.
- Violence in popular culture--United States.
- Violence in popular culture.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Outlaw in American visual culture
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. Her narrative covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artist's approximations, and the depiction of key figures in die "war on terror." Hall's cultural analysis has profound implications for our understanding of contemporary American fantasies of vulnerability, projection of enemies around the world, and adoption of security measures in domestic and foreign policy.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The making of the vigilante viewer
- Execution broadsides
- Slave notices
- Pinkerton posters
- The FBI's most wanted
- America's most wanted
- Conclusion. The vigilante viewer rides again.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813928555
- 0813928559
- 9780813928562
- 0813928567
- OCLC:
- 318534276
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