The Look of America - T7002 - Daniel Kane (Autumn 11/12)

  • Created: 21/03/2011 11:15:43
  • Last updated: 26/03/2012 13:36:25
Group by: Section | Type 72 items
  1. Week 1: Introduction (2 items)
    1. Reading (2 items)
      1. Introduction & chapter 1: Visualizing Various American Landscapes ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Suggested for student purchase | This is the core course book for the entire term. Please read pages 1-45 prior to our first session. The book is available at the John Smith bookshop on campus. Buy it. Read it. Love it.
        2011-08-30T15:42:16+01:00
      2. American Archives: gender, race, and class in visual culture - Shawn Michelle Smith, 1999
        Book | Essential | Copies are available in the library. This book is a great research tool for many of the seminars to come.
        2011-08-30T15:45:18+01:00
  2. Week 2: Seeing and Reading the Civil War (3 items)
    1. Reading (3 items)
      1. Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment; or, Mug Shots and Crime Scenes ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | (Please note this reading will also apply to week 9's lecture and seminars)
        2011-09-28T12:15:18+01:00
      2. Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs - Alan Trachtenberg, Winter 1985
        Article | Essential
        2011-09-07T12:01:58+01:00
      3. Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose - Walt Whitman
        Webpage | Essential | The Other editions available at the same shelfmark. The Most Inspiriting OF All War's Shows, Battle Of Gettysburg, A Cavalry Camp, A New York Soldier, Home-Made Music, Abraham Lincoln, Heated Term, Soldiers And Talks, Death Of A Wisconsin Officer, Hospitals Ensemble.
        2011-03-21T11:42:36+00:00
  3. Week 3 : The Birth of an American Nation? (4 items)
    1. Reading (3 items)
      1. Chapter 3: Cultural Anxieties II: A Case of Black and White ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | (please note this reading will also apply to Week 7's lecture / seminars)
        2011-09-28T12:22:42+01:00
      2. The Good Lynching and "The Birth of a Nation": Discourses and Aesthetics of Jim Crow - Michele Faith Wallace, Autumn 2003
        Article | Essential
        2011-03-21T13:34:41+00:00
      3. The Birth of a Black Cinema: Race, Reception, and Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates - Anna Siomopoulos, 2006
        Article | Essential
        2011-03-21T13:37:34+00:00
    2. Seeing (1 item)
      1. The Birth Of A Nation - D W Griffith (videorecording)
        Audio Visual | Essential | Please ensure you attend the screening of this groundbreaking film. Feel free to bring popcorn.
        2011-03-21T11:52:13+00:00
  4. Week 4 : How the Other Half Lived in America (12 items)
    1. Reading (11 items)
      1. Chapter 4: From a Comfortable Distance: Visual Culture and War ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | pp. 95-105 (Please note this reading will also apply to lecture / seminars in Week 6)
        2011-09-28T12:32:29+01:00
      2. Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment; or, Mug Shots and Crime Scenes ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | AND pp. 125-147 (relevant for this week only)
        2011-09-28T12:36:31+01:00
      3. Selections from Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (click on links below): (7 items)
        1. Chapter IV: The Down Town Back-Alleys ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T12:42:52+01:00
        2. Chapter V: The Italian in New York ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T12:49:32+01:00
        3. Chapter VI: The Bend ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T12:53:02+01:00
        4. Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T12:56:04+01:00
        5. Chapter VIII: The Cheap Lodging-Houses ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T12:59:25+01:00
        6. Chapter IX: Chinatown ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T13:03:29+01:00
        7. Chapter X: Jewtown ** How The Other Half Lives
          Chapter | Essential | Other editions available at the same shelfmark
          2011-09-28T13:06:43+01:00
      4. Readings and Images related to The Triangle Shirt Waist Factor Fire
        Audio Visual | Essential
        2011-09-28T13:18:42+01:00
      5. Jacob Riis - Bonnie Yochelson, Jacob A Riis, 2001
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T12:06:28+01:00
    2. Seeing (1 item)

      1. Jacob Riis's photographs (BROKEN LINK)

  5. Week 5 : American Dada and Modernism (7 items)
    1. Reading (4 items)
      1. Chapter 7: The Trouble with Kitsch: Highs and Lows in American Art and Visual Culture ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-09-28T13:28:26+01:00
      2. Chapter "Objects" ** Tender Buttons
        Chapter | Essential | Print copies also available at PH 87402 TEN
        2011-03-21T14:24:51+00:00
      3. Modernisms: a literary guide - Peter Nicholls, 2008
        Book | Recommended | Other editions available at the same shelfmark. A great resource that will give you an international historical overview of Modernism
        2011-09-07T10:28:34+01:00
      4. Charles Sheeler And The Cult Of The Machine - Karen Lucic, 1991
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T10:40:15+01:00
    2. Seeing (3 items)
      1. YouTube - Manhatta (1921) - Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
        Webpage | Essential
        2011-03-21T14:00:47+00:00

      2. Selections from Rudy Burckhardt's films

      3. Photographs including Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" and "Nude Descending a Staircase", Man Ray's "The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows", "Gift", "Enigma of Isidore Ducasse"

  6. Week 6 : The American Great Depression (7 items)
    1. Reading (3 items)
      1. Chapter 4: From a Comfortable Distance: Visual Culture and War ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-09-28T13:38:10+01:00
      2. Selection from: The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal** Movies And Mass Culture - Martin Rubin
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-09-28T13:54:12+01:00
      3. Put To Work: relief programs in the Great Depression - Nancy E Rose, 1994
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T10:48:21+01:00
    2. Seeing (4 items)
      1. Gold Diggers Of 1933 - Busby Berkeley, Mervyn LeRoy, 2006 (videorecording)
        Audio Visual | Essential | Also available on "The Busby Berkeley disc" PN 1997 BUS
        2011-03-22T12:22:04+00:00
      2. Footlight Parade - Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley, 2006 (videorecording)
        Audio Visual | Essential | Selection from the "By A Waterfall" section
        2011-03-22T12:27:33+00:00
      3. FSA/OWI B&W Photographs
        Webpage | Essential | FSA Photographs
        2011-03-22T12:30:10+00:00
      4. The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
        Webpage | Essential | Click on the central image and then click on "Tour the Future"
        2011-03-22T12:34:23+00:00
  7. Week 7 : American Civil Rights (4 items)
    1. Reading (3 items)
      1. Chapter 3: Cultural Anxieties II: A Case of Black and White ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-10-03T12:44:09+01:00
      2. Come Let us Build a New World Together: SNCC and Photography of the Civil Rights Movement - Leigh Raiford, 2007
        Article | Essential | Scroll down this page to find the article and click to access as a PDF file
        2011-09-07T11:02:07+01:00
      3. Sweet Land Of Liberty?: the African-American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century - Robert Cook, 1998
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T11:10:52+01:00
    2. Seeing (1 item)

      1. Civil Rights photography and documentary film footage

  8. Week 8 : The American Cold War (9 items)
    1. Reading (7 items)
      1. Chapter 2 & 3 ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-10-03T12:49:37+01:00
      2. America - Allen Ginsberg
        Webpage | Essential | (print and bring to seminar)
        2011-10-03T12:52:06+01:00
      3. HUM BOM! - Allen Ginsberg
        Webpage | Essential | (print and bring to seminar)
        2011-10-03T12:55:19+01:00
      4. Bomb - Gregory Corso
        Article | Essential | "Bomb"
        2011-03-22T12:57:01+00:00
      5. The Brake of Time: Corso's “Bomb” as Postmodern God(dess) - Christine Hoff Kraemer, Summer 2002
        Article | Essential
        2011-09-07T11:25:33+01:00
      6. Poems - Allen Ginsberg
        Generic Document | Recommended | "America", "Hum Bomb". Also available as print copies at PH 92605
        2011-03-24T15:43:11+00:00
      7. National Security And The Nuclear Dilemma: an introduction to the American experience in the Cold War - Richard Smoke, 1993
        Book | Recommended | Good historical introduction to the Cold War
        2011-09-07T12:13:22+01:00
    2. Seeing (2 items)
      1. The Atomic Cafe - Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty, 1982, 1995 (videorecording - ALSO AVAILABLE ON VIMEO.COM)
        Audio Visual | Essential
        2011-03-22T12:43:24+00:00
      2. YouTube - Allen Ginsberg live in London
        Webpage | Essential | Allen Ginsberg performing "Hum Bomb"
        2011-03-22T12:47:01+00:00
  9. Week 9: American Counterculture (15 items)
    1. Reading (8 items)
      1. Chapter 3: Cultural Anxieties II: A Case of Black and White ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | pp 87 - 94
        2011-10-03T13:11:08+01:00
      2. Chapter 4: From a Comfortable Distance: Visual Culture and War ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential | pp. 105 - 123
        2011-10-03T13:13:35+01:00
      3. Revolutionary Black Nationalism: The Black Panther Party - Jessica C Harris, Summer 2001
        Article | Essential
        2011-03-22T14:52:22+00:00
      4. Black Arts Movement - Larry Neal, Summer 1968
        Article | Essential
        2011-09-07T11:38:31+01:00
      5. "Furthur" : Reflections on Counter-Culture and the Postmodern - Bill Whelan
        Webpage | Essential
        2011-03-22T15:05:11+00:00
      6. Student Unrest In The United States - Lewis S Feuer, November 1972
        Article | Essential
        2011-03-22T15:11:18+00:00
      7. The American Counterculture - Christopher Gair, MyiLibrary, c2007
        Book | Recommended | Other edition also available at Z 1361.C6.GAI
        2011-09-07T12:15:44+01:00
      8. The Sixties: Years of hope, days of rage - Todd Gitlin, 1993
        Book | Recommended | Other editions also available at the same shelfmark. A great document of the times from an author who was in the middle of it all.
        2011-09-07T12:19:05+01:00
    2. Seeing (7 items)
      1. Medium Cool - Haskel Wexler, 1969
        Audio Visual | Essential | Not in stock. Do not miss this screening. This film is incredible and rare.
        2011-03-22T14:32:16+00:00

      2. Robert Crumb cartoons

      3. YouTube - LSD News Reports 1966-1967
        Webpage | Essential
        2011-03-22T14:36:39+00:00

      4. Grateful Dead Live in San Francisco, 1967

      5. Photographs of representative Black Panthers, Weather Underground members

      6. YouTube - The Weather Underground Documentary Trailer 2002
        Webpage | Essential
        2011-03-22T14:45:01+00:00
      7. YouTube - 1968 DNC: Democratic nightmare in Chicago
        Webpage | Essential
        2011-03-22T14:44:52+00:00
  10. Week 10: American Sex on the Screen (9 items)
    1. Reading (6 items)
      1. Chapter 6: Visualizing Sex in America ** American Visual Culture
        Chapter | Essential
        2011-10-03T14:11:44+01:00
      2. Visual Pleasure Narrative Cinema - Laura Mulvey
        Article | Essential
        2011-10-03T14:20:02+01:00
      3. Screening Sex - Linda Williams, 2008
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T11:51:44+01:00
      4. Conversations With Wilder - Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, 1999
        Book | Recommended
        2011-09-07T11:53:42+01:00
      5. Andy Warhol's Blow Job - Roy Grundmann, 2003
        Book | Recommended | Great introduction to the film and to Warhol's ideas more generally
        2011-09-07T11:55:13+01:00
      6. Jack Smith: flaming creature : his amazing life and times - Edward G Leffingwell, Carole Kismaric, Marvin Heiferman, P.S. 1 Museum, 1997
        Book | Recommended | Fantastic stuff in here - crucial reading for all Jack Smith freaks
        2011-09-07T11:57:10+01:00
    2. Seeing - DO NOT MISS THIS SCREENING. RARE AND WONDERFUL FILMS. (3 items)
      1. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, 2001 (videorecording)
        Audio Visual | Recommended
        2011-09-27T16:51:51+01:00
      2. Flaming Creatures - Jack Smith, 1963
        Audio Visual | Recommended | Out of print. Not in stock.
        2011-09-27T17:13:54+01:00
      3. Blow Job - Andy Warhol, 2004 (videorecording)
        Audio Visual | Recommended
        2011-09-27T17:09:20+01:00
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