{"product_id":"looking-for-america-9781405114653","title":"Looking for America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the 'visual' in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. This book covers important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of 'others'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection is an invigorating, even stunning, revelation. I left it feeling as if I had learned a new language. Congratulations to Ardis Cameron for the creative insight with which she has woven together an argument for the indispensable value of ‘looking’ into the past.” \u003ci\u003eAlice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book illuminates the role of the visual in constructions of American national identity. Most impressive is the demonstration that vision itself is not transparent, but an instrument that shapes, even as it is shaped by, relations of power.” \u003ci\u003eJoan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Ardis Cameron).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I: 1860-1900.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Types.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life (Ardis Cameron).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation (Andrea L. Volpe).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II: 1900-1940.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Camera.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Photographing the \"American Negro\": Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Shawn Michelle Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography (Laura Wexler).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Eye of Power\": Cross-Class Looking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 (Jacquelyn Dowd Hall).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Margaret Bourke-White’s Red Coat; or, Slumming in the Thirties (Paula Rabinowitz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III: 1940-2000.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome and Nation: Imaging the \"All-American\" Family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. \"The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans\": Nationalism and Life’s Family Ideal (Wendy Kozol).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Visua Culture and Working-Class Community: Photography and the Organizing of the Steelworkers’ Union in Chicago (Larry Peterson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker (Mary Beth Haralovich).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Eye of Difference: The Politics of Appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare (Stuart Cosgrove).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews (Matthew Frye Jacobson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroubling Sights (Sites): Visual Maps and America’s \"Others\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes (Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of Othered Places (Ardis Cameron).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: \"Reading the Visual Record\" (Elspeth H. Brown).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: List of Visual Archives (Ardis Cameron).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407850578263,"sku":"9781405114653","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405114653.jpg?v=1730500736","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/looking-for-america-9781405114653","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}