Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture - Paperback
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Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture - Paperback
$45.00
by Rachel Hall (Author)
Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. Her narrative covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artists' approximations, and the depiction of key figures in the "war on terror." Hall's cultural analysis has profound implications for our understanding of contemporary American fantasies of vulnerability, projection of enemies around the world, and adoption of security measures in domestic and foreign policy.
Wanted will appeal not only to students and scholars in literary studies, cultural studies, and art history but also to readers more generally interested in society's outlaws and in the test of wills between law enforcement and criminal evasion.
Author Biography
Rachel Hall is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University.
Number of Pages: 216
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 02, 2009
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