| Description |
xix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The artist looks at the machine: Whitman, Sheeler, and American modernism -- The camera and the magic of self-transformation in Buster Keaton -- Lewis Hine and the art of the commonplace -- Don't think of it as art: the legacy of Let us now praise famous men -- Weegee's voyeurism and the mastery of urban disorder -- Documentary and the seductions of beauty: Salgado's Workers -- Documentary film and the power of interrogation: Kopple's American dream and Moore's Roger and me -- Writing posthistorically: Krazy kat, Maus, and the contemporary fiction cartoon -- Understanding Disneyland: American mass culture and the European gaze -- Technology, the imagination, virtual reality, and what's left of society. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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History. |
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Art and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and technology. |
| ISBN |
0878057544 cloth alkaline paper |
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0878057552 paperback alkaline paper |
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