Joshua Brown (1) (1949–)

Auteur de Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America

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A propos de l'auteur

Joshua Brown is Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Œuvres de Joshua Brown

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Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002) 33 exemplaires

Factories, Foundries, and Refineries: A History of Five Brooklyn Industries (1980) 5 exemplaires

History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (1991) 3 exemplaires

Who built America? (CD-ROM) (1994) 3 exemplaires

Robeson In Spain 1 exemplaire

Who Built America?: Part II: From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946 (2001) 1 exemplaire

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Oeuvres associées

Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society: Volume Two (1992) — Visual editor — 146 exemplaires

Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society: Volume One (1989) — Visual editor — 128 exemplaires

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Nom légal: Brown, Joshua Emmett
Date de naissance: 1949-07-13
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: New York, New York, USA
Études: City College of New York (magna cum laude ∙ BA ∙ 1975)
Columbia University (MA ∙ American History ∙ 1976)
Columbia University (MP ∙ American History ∙ 1978)
Columbia University (PhD ∙ American History ∙ 1993)
Professions: historian
professor (history)
Organisations: American Social History Project ( [1981, 1999])
Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project
Prix et distinctions: Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)

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Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday… par Joshua Brown

Brown argues that pictorial newspapers in the mid-late 19th century performed a representational balancing act in order to deal with the complexities of Gilded Age society. This included a reworking of pictorial and physiognomic cues inherited from antebellum print culture, and the development of new visual signs for the increasingly fragmented/niche identities of Americans, according to enclaves of sex, race, region, and class.

Brown convincingly argues (though I would have liked to see some consideration of print culture within a larger visual field) that news reporting was one of the most potent, fraught, and complex visual languages of the time period, and was absorbed and interpreted in many different ways by a diverse nineteenth-century viewership.… (plus d'informations)

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