Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1283898187
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9780812206845
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9781283898188
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Why Public Culture? -- What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction -- Part I. Public Action -- 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 -- Part II. Public Image -- 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 -- Part III. Public Space -- 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 -- Part IV. Public Identity -- 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: Wither the "Public" in America? -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface: Why Public Culture? ""; ""What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture-An Introduction ""; ""Part I. Public Action ""
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""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""; ""Part II. Public Image ""; ""Chapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture""; ""Chapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11""
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""Chapter 6. Screening Pornography""""Part III. Public Space ""; ""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""; ""Part IV. Public Identity""; ""Chapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors""; ""Chapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice""
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""Chapter 12. The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio""""Epilogue: Pitfalls and Promises: Wither the "Public" in America? ""; ""Notes ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Index ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812222029
Additional Edition:
Print version Public Culture : Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States
Language:
English
Keywords:
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