Projecting words, writing images : intersections of the textual and the visual in American cultural practices / edited by John R. Leo and Marek Paryz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leo, John R.

Paryż, Marek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Visual communication--United States.

Visual communication.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This gathering of essays by 20 scholars trained in comparative literatures, art history, critical theory, and American cultural studies further explores and expands the spirited and energetic field of visual cultural studies and its cognate or supplemental projects of "visual practices" and "visual literacy." Their topics and perspectives engage contemporary re-theorizations of "text," of "word" and "image," while their alignments, ruptures, slippages and aporias fall across a range of media ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; JOHN R. LEO AND MAREK PARYZ; PART ONE; MOD HIGH LOW SUB CULTURAL BASTERDS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND STORY; POLAND... THROUGH THE CAMERA'S EYE; TURTLES CAN FLY; THE DARK NIGHT OF THE DARK KNIGHT; PART TWO; ROBERT FROST'S PHYSIOGNOMY AT THE END OF THE LIBERAL CONSENSUS; "PRESENCE IS BETTER THAN ABSENCE"; THE SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR OF JOHN BERRYMAN'S DREAM SONGS; PART THREE; CULTURAL VISIBILITY IN THE AVANT-GARDE TEXT; HOLOCAUST OBSCENITY; THE RETURN OF THE PASTORAL; PART FOUR; WHITE LENSES, BLACK VOICES; POPULAR CULTURE'S DANCE MACABRE WITH EUGENICS; SEEING THE "TRUTH"

ERIC GANSWORTH'S MENDING SKINS AND AN UNSUCCESSFUL RECLAMATION OF INDIAN IMAGESPART FIVE; THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF THE POST-WESTERN; A WOMEN'S WESTERN?; "SEE" THE BOOK

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4438-3334-7

OCLC:

827209379