American visual cultures

Arts and society, Arts, American
Synopsis
A major new textbook for students of contemporary American art and media, and modern American history. American Visual Cultures analyses the role of painting, photography, film, television, advertising, journalism and other visual media in the historical development of the United States from the Civil War to the present day. It offers a chronology of major debates and developments in modern US history and traces the social, political and economic factors that have shaped the development of visual forms and practices across time. Illustrated throughout, the book combines a wide range of critical approaches and is made up of new essays by internationally renowned scholars. A General Introduction, in which the editors discuss the theoretical and pedagogical approaches shaping the contemporary study of visual culture, with particular reference to the United States, is followed by four sections, each covering a defined chronological period: 1861-1929; 1929-1963; 1963-1980; 1980 to the present. Each section opens with an introduction by the editors, giving historical and cultural context and highlighting thematic and pedagogical links between essays. An annotated bibliography of suggested further reading completes this invaluable and unique resource for the student and teacher of modern American art, media and culture
Manifest destiny and visual culture: Photographing American Indians : repression and revision / Mick Gidley -- Visualizing women in the Civil War: Unsexed amazons and desperados : imaging public war women and imagining female warriors in the American Civil War / Cynthia Wiedemann Empen -- Renegotiating masculinity after the Civil War: Absent fathers and women with beards : religion and gender in popular imagery / David Morgan -- Visualizing "America" as "Progress" at the end of the Western frontier: Painting the nation : American art at the White City / Christopher Gair -- Alternative racial gazes in American silent cinema: Visualizing racial politics in the films of D.W. Griffith and Oscar Micheaux / Charlene Regester -- Visualizing dissent in World War 1: Modernism, and the end of "liberal" progressivism, in art from The masses (1911-1917) / David Holloway -- The avant-garde and the market: Debating modernism : art and American advertising in the 1920s / Don McComb -- The New Deal and film: Debating the New Deal : Gold diggers of 1933 and My man Godfrey / Michael Ryan -- Painting and the New Deal: Art and work on the WPA / Joan Saab -- The New Deal and photography: Liberal documentary goes to school : Farm Security Administration photographs of students, teachers, and schools / Eric Margolis -- Supporting dictatorship on World War 2 news: "Flash from Brazil" : 1940s' newsreels present Latin America / Pennee Bender -- The emergence of TV as a new mass medium: The birth of American televisual spectatorship / Cat Celebrezze -- Negotiating the Cold War in film: The other side of Hollywood's Cold War : images of dissent in the 1950s / Tony Shaw -- Cold War "containment culture" and photography: Robert Frank's The Americans and the 1950s / Neil Campbell -- Reading Abstract Expressionist art: Aesthetics, politics and "cultural theory" : Barnett Newman's utopian painting / David A. Wragg -- Visualizing political struggle: Civil Rights-era photography / Deborah Willis -- Towards Postmodernism: Post-World War 2 photography in America : from committed to solipsistic art / Jean Kempf and Bruno Chalifour -- Visual violence in history and art: Zapruder, Warhol, and the accident of images / John Beck -- New modes of dissent in art of the 1960s and 1970s: Visual culture and strategies of resistance : from Semina to Heresies / Francis Frascina -- Photographing the Vietnam War: Democratic accountability and liberal representation in American iconic photography : the image of "accidental napalm" / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites -- "Commodity feminism" in 1960s' visual culture: Sex, style and single girls / Bill Osgerby -- New genre forms in "New Hollywood" film: Partly truth and partly fiction : the western, the city movie and the American 1970s / Linnie Blake -- Marketing "post-Fordism": Advertising the global economy / Katherine Johnson -- Commodifying Latin America in NAFTA-era film: The world according to Miramax : chocolate, poetry and neoliberal aesthetics / Sophia A. McClennen -- Visualizing "memory" in the age of global capital: A taste for black and white : visuality, digital culture and the anxieties of the global / Paul Grainge -- Remembering Vietnam in the 1980s: White skin, white masks : Vietnam War films and the racialized gaze / LeiLani Nishime -- "Queer" photography and the "culture wars": Robert Mapplethorpe's queer aesthetic of the pair / Denis Flannery -- Transnationalism in contemporary African American photography: Memory, history and "universal" narrative in the work of Carrie Mae Weems / Maren Stange -- Anthropology at the movies: Jerry Maguire as "expeditionary discourse" / Jonathan Gayles and S. Elizabeth Bird -- Negotiating feminism in contemporary TV: "What's sex got to do with it?" : signifying post-feminism in Sex and the city / Anna Gough-Yates -- Constructing history in TV news from Clinton to 9/11: Flashframes of history : American visual memories / Andrew Hoskins.