Configuring America

Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

ConFiguring America brings together a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America’s tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a variety of fields – including cultural iconography, visual culture, star studies and history – a diverse group of international contributors sheds light on how these figures and their media representations construct America’s image beyond its borders. An important addition to an expanding field, ConFiguring America will deepen readers’ understanding of celebrity, iconography and their worldwide implications.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-15
Mått:178 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Intellect
ISBN:9781841506357

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Klaus Rieser is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Graz, where Michael Fuchs teaches American literature and Michael Phillips is a lecturer in English.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Theorizing Iconic Figures Klaus RieserPART I: Icons and the Struggle over Meaning Chapter 1: ‘Just Like You’, But Not Like Us: Staging National Belonging, Multiracial Femininity, and Collective Memory in the American Girl Family Karina EileraasChapter 2: Behind the Brown Mask: Joe Louis’ Face and the Construction of Racial Mythologies Marcy S. SacksChapter 3: LeBron James and the Web of Discourse: Iconic Sports Figures and Semantic Struggles Michael Fuchs & Michael PhillipsPART II: Appropriating Iconic Figures Chapter 4: O Superman: The Many Faces of the Man of Steel Bradley BaileyChapter 5: Thirty Are Better Than One: Marilyn Monroe and the Performance of Americanness Susanne HamschaChapter 6: Queering Cowboys, Queering Futurity: The Re/Construction of American Cowboy Masculinity Leopold LippertChapter 7: Iconizing Radical Change: How Gary Cooper Led Poland to FreedomJolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel