Screen LibraryPublic culture : diversity, democracy, and community in the united states /
From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, scholars examine issues of democracy, diversity, identity, community, citizenship, and belonging through the lens of Ameri...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2008 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, scholars examine issues of democracy, diversity, identity, community, citizenship, and belonging through the lens of American popular culture. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 34 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812206845 |
| Index Number: | E169 |
| CLC: | K712.03 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Why Public Culture? / What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture An Introduction / Chapter 1. Looking for the Public in Time and Space: The Case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Chapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Chapter 3. Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II / Chapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture / Chapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 / Chapter 6. Screening Pornography / Chapter 7. The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space / Chapter 8. The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture / Chapter 9. Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America / Chapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors / Chapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice / Chapter 12. The Queen s Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Epilogue. Pitfalls and Promises: Whither the "Public" in America? / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |