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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/136780685 Title: American icons : the genesis of a national visual language Author: Benedikt Feldges Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780415956352 0415956358 9780203937846 0203937848 0415875501 9780415875509 OCLC:136780685

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American icons : the genesis of a national visual language

Author:	Benedikt Feldges
Publisher:	New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:	Routledge research in cultural and media studies, 13.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Summary:	Dismantling the aura of apparently timeless icons and spectacles with their seductive power to attract the eye, this book offers ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in a modern pictorial culture. Read more...
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Subjects	Motion pictures -- Semiotics. Television -- Semiotics. Semiotik. View all subjects
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Material Type:	Internet resource
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ISBN:	9780415956352 0415956358 9780203937846 0203937848 0415875501 9780415875509
OCLC Number:	136780685
Description:	vii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	PART A: Icons in the museum. Collecting pictures -- Collecting language -- -- PART B: Kaleidoscopic spectacles. Pictorial historiography -- The insignia of the spectacle -- Pictorial genres -- The narrative of the news spectacle -- Iconic lecterns -- The historicity of the documentary's imagery -- -- PART C: Hyperrealism. Pictorial supremacy -- The icon of Joe Friday: the moral in the Dragnet -- The icon of Lucy: queen of television comedy -- The icon of Edward R. Murrow: master of "the control room of studio 41" -- Walter Cronkite: court reporter of the spectacle -- Muhammad Ali: champion of the screen -- Premodernism.
Series Title:	Routledge research in cultural and media studies, 13.
Responsibility:	Benedikt Feldges.
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"Feldges argues that historians must abandon the idea that pictures can be used to construct a history of what they seem to depict, embracing instead a study of visual "etymology" - that is, tracing Read more...

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