National Imaginaries, American Identities
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African Americans
Allusion
Ambiguity
Ambivalence
American Literary History
Americans
Anglo
Billy Budd
Black people
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Colonialism
Colonization
Criticism
Cultural studies
Daguerreotype
Dorothea Lange
Edward Said
Emblem
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Eric Lott
Eroticism
Essay
Exoticism
Film noir
Freemasonry
Harper's Weekly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Humanities
Iconoclasm
Iconography
Iconology
Ideology
Illustration
Individualism
Interdisciplinarity
James Russell Lowell
Masculinity
Medusa's Head
Mexicans
Miscegenation
Narrative
Nathaniel Hawthorne
National identity
Noir (anime)
Nuclear weapon
Orientalism
Oxford University Press
Photography
Physiognomy
Picturesque
Poetry
Politician
Politics
Postmodernism
Prince Hall
Princeton University Press
Print culture
Protestantism
Public lecture
Publication
Racial segregation
Racism
Religion
Rhetoric
Sean
Secularization
Slavery
Subjectivity
Suggestion
The House of the Seven Gables
Writing
Yellowstone National Park
Product details
- ISBN 9780691009957
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the American Revolution to the present, the United States has enjoyed a rich and persuasive visual culture. These images have constructed, sustained, and disseminated social values and identities, but this unwieldy, sometimes untidy form of cultural expression has received less systematic attention than other modes of depicting American life. Recently, scholars in the humanities have developed a new critical approach to reading images and the cultural work they perform. This practice, American cultural iconography, is generating sophisticated analyses of how images organize our public life. The contributions to this volume exhibit the extraordinary scope and interpretive power of this interdisciplinary study while illuminating the dark corners of the nation's psyche. Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerreotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to teach us who we are and who we are not. They examine mimesis in elegant portraits of black Freemasons, industrial-age representations of national parks, and postwar photographs of atomic destruction.
They consider how visual culture has described and disclosed the politics of racialized sexuality, whether subconsciously affirming it in the shadows of film noir or deliberately contesting it through the interethnic incest of John Sayles's Lone Star. Students of literature, film, and history will find that these essays extend the frontier of American studies. The contributors are Maurice Wallace, Dennis Berthold, Alan Trachtenberg, Shirley Samuels, Jenny Franchot, Cecelia Tichi, Eric Lott, Bryan C. Taylor, and Jose E. Limon.
Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance and The Making and Breaking of the Concord Circle. Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of American Literature, American Culture and Secrets and Sympathies: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthame's Novels and the editor of The American Literary History Reader.
