Picturing America

Antje Dallmann

ISBN 10: 3631549407 / ISBN 13: 9783631549407

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2006, 2006

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Neuware -The essays collected here reflect upon various aspects of the roles and functions of visual media in (and outside of) contemporary US-American culture. By exercising close readings of the visual cultural texts or of visual media in context, we are presented with examples that illustrate the validity and significance of specific critical theories, while other essays point out ambivalences and subversions in the texts¿ functions or meanings or present texts that may be regarded as models for diverging conceptual approaches. Amongst the texts discussed are popular television shows like The West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI and Nip/Tuck, films like The Big Lebowski, Bamboozled and Traffic, as well as photographs surrounding 9/11 and questions of identity and globalized culture. 204 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Picturing America
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2006
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631549407
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631549407
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 210 L x 148 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 210 millimètres de largeur par 148 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 271 grammes

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Synopsis

The essays collected here reflect upon various aspects of the roles and functions of visual media in (and outside of) contemporary US-American culture. By exercising close readings of the visual cultural texts or of visual media in context, we are presented with examples that illustrate the validity and significance of specific critical theories, while other essays point out ambivalences and subversions in the texts' functions or meanings or present texts that may be regarded as models for diverging conceptual approaches. Amongst the texts discussed are popular television shows like The West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI and Nip/Tuck, films like The Big Lebowski, Bamboozled and Traffic, as well as photographs surrounding 9/11 and questions of identity and globalized culture.

À propos de l?auteur

The Editors : Antje Dallmann teaches American literature and culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She specializes in urban literature, postmodernity and film studies. Reinhard Isensee teaches American literature and culture at the American Studies Program of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Research interests are American Cultural History, Young Adult Literature and New Media studies. Philipp Kneis has been organizing several students' conferences and symposia at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His interests focus on visual culture, memetics, anthropology and political science.