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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Why Public Culture? —Marguerite S. Shaffer What Is Public Culture? Agency and Contested Meaning in American Culture—An Introduction —Mary Kupiec Cayton 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 —Mary P. Ryan Chapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot —Edward T. Linenthal Chapter 3. Public Sentiments and the American Remembrance of World War II —John Bodnar PART II. PUBLIC IMAGE Chapter 4. Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture —Susan Strasser Chapter 5. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11 —Lynn Spigel Chapter 6. Screening Pornography —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun PART III. PUBLIC SPACE Chapter 7. The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space —Catherine Gudis Chapter 8. The Social Space of Shopping: Mobilizing Dreams for Public Culture —Sharon Zukin Chapter 9. Gates, Barriers, and the Rise of Affinity: Parsing Public-Private Space in Postindustrial America —Hal Rothman PART IV. PUBLIC IDENTITY Chapter 10. To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African American Funeral Directors —Suzanne Smith Chapter 11. Denizenship as Transnational Practice —Rachel Ida Buff Chapter 12. The Queen's Mirrors: Public Identity and the Process of Transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio —Mary E. Frederickson Epilogue: Pitfalls and Promises: Wither the "Public" in America? —Sheila L. Croucher Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
