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Author Feldges, Benedikt, 1964-

Title American icons : the genesis of a national visual language / Benedikt Feldges
Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 13
Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 13.
Contents pt. A. Icons in the museum -- pt. B. Kaleidoscopic spectacles -- pt. C. Hyperrealism
Summary Shedding light on the historicity of icons to reframe the history of the screen and dissect the visual core of a medium that is still poorly understood, this book presents new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-278) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
Television -- Semiotics.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Motion pictures -- Semiotics
Television -- Semiotics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203937846
0203937848