Reading National geographic /
Lutz, Catherine.
Reading National geographic / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993. - xvii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.
Comfortable strangers:the making of national identity in popular photography -- Becoming America's lens on the world: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century -- Inside the great machinery of desire -- A world brightly different: photographic conventions, 1950-1986 -- Fashions in the ethnic other -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes -- The readers' imagined Geographic: an evolutionary tale -- The pleasures and possibilities of reading.
Discusses the ways that the magazine and its authors and editors have both passively and actively shaped American opinions of other cultures and caused us to reflect on our own culture.
0226497232 9780226497235 0226497240 (pbk.) 9780226497242 (pbk.)
92040698
GB94-61607
National geographic.
American periodicals--History--20th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.
910/.5
Reading National geographic / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993. - xvii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.
Comfortable strangers:the making of national identity in popular photography -- Becoming America's lens on the world: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century -- Inside the great machinery of desire -- A world brightly different: photographic conventions, 1950-1986 -- Fashions in the ethnic other -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes -- The readers' imagined Geographic: an evolutionary tale -- The pleasures and possibilities of reading.
Discusses the ways that the magazine and its authors and editors have both passively and actively shaped American opinions of other cultures and caused us to reflect on our own culture.
0226497232 9780226497235 0226497240 (pbk.) 9780226497242 (pbk.)
92040698
GB94-61607
National geographic.
American periodicals--History--20th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.
910/.5