TY  - BOOK
AU  - Antje Dallmann
AU  - Reinhard Isensee
AU  - Philipp Kneis
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Picturing America
T2  - Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1101204
N2  - The essays collected here reflect upon various aspects of the roles and functions of visual media in (and outside of) contemporary US-American culture. By exercising close readings of the visual cultural texts or of visual media in context, we are presented with examples that illustrate the validity and significance of specific critical theories, while other essays point out ambivalences and subversions in the texts’ functions or meanings or present texts that may be regarded as models for diverging conceptual approaches. Amongst the texts discussed are popular television shows like The West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI and Nip/Tuck, films like The Big Lebowski, Bamboozled and Traffic, as well as photographs surrounding 9/11 and questions of identity and globalized culture.
KW  - USA, Film, Politische Identität (Motiv), Geschichte 1998-2004, Aufsatzsammlung, Politik, Gender Studies, Fernsehen
LA  - English
ER  -