Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and
People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the
‘visual’ in defining the kaleidoscope of American
experience and American identity in the 20th century.
* Covers enduringly important topics in American history:
nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of
‘others’
* Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer
on how to ‘read’ an image, and a guide to visual archives and
collections
* Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related
fields eager to incorporate the visual into their
teaching–and telling–of the American story.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Ardis Cameron).
Suggested Readings.
PART I: 1860-1900.
Modern Types.
1. Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life
(Ardis Cameron).
2. Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of
Class Formation (Andrea L. Volpe).
Suggested Readings.
PART II: 1900-1940.
The Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the
Camera.
3. Photographing the ‘American Negro’: Nation, Race, and
Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Shawn Michelle
Smith).
4. Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family
Photography (Laura Wexler).
‘The Eye of Power’: Cross-Class Looking.
5. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the
Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 (Jacquelyn Dowd Hall).
6. Margaret Bourke-White’s Red Coat; or, Slumming in the
Thirties (Paula Rabinowitz).
Suggested Readings.
PART III: 1940-2000.
Home and Nation: Imaging the ‘All-American’ Family.
7. ‘The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans’: Nationalism and
Life’s Family Ideal (Wendy Kozol).
8. Visua Culture and Working-Class Community: Photography and
the Organizing of the Steelworkers’ Union in Chicago (Larry
Peterson).
9. Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker (Mary
Beth Haralovich).
The Eye of Difference: The Politics of Appearance.
10. The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare (Stuart Cosgrove).
11. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews (Matthew Frye Jacobson).
Troubling Sights (Sites): Visual Maps and America’s
‘Others’.
12. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes (Catherine A.
Lutz and Jane L. Collins).
13. When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of
Othered Places (Ardis Cameron).
Suggested Readings.
Appendix A: ‘Reading the Visual Record’ (Elspeth H. Brown).
Appendix B: List of Visual Archives (Ardis Cameron).
Index.
A propos de l’auteur
Ardis Cameron is Professor of American and New England
Studies, University of Southern Maine. She is author of Radicals
of the Worst Sort: The Laboring of Lawrence, 1860-1912
(1993). She received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for
her work in progress, Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a
Big Book.
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