Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves : : Vintage American Photographs / / Ann-Janine Morey.
Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life-family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love-as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 123 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE: Some words about the pictures
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Romancing the Dog
- 1 THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF EVERYDAY PEOPLE
- 2 THE DOG ON THE TABLE: From The Great Gatsby to the Great White Middle Class
- 3 THE GAZE OUTSIDE THE FRAME
- 4 FAMILY PORTRAITS
- 5 HUNTING PICTURES AND DOG STORIES
- 6 WOMEN CROSS THE LINE
- CONCLUSION: The Dog in the Picture
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX