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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"iconic images"”.
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Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids
… Food is essential to our existence, and the images we use to communicate about food are important to public culture. In this project, I conduct a visual rhetorical analysis of the food pyramids created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the 1992 Food Guide Pyramid and the …
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"Swear this flag to live, for this flag to die": Flag Imagery in Constructing the Narrative of the Civil War and the Transformation of American Nationalism
… and the Confederate Battle Cross - grew into iconic images within American communities. Their status as symbols of nationalism, patriotism, and an American historical past often advocated by newspapers, individual citizens, and the soldiers of the war themselves, initiated an American …
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Advertising Photography: Professional Practice as Commercial Creativity
… which combine to define ‘good’ and even ‘iconic’ photography as a practice that characterizes and rewards itself on its photographic creativity. A practitioner-led definition of creativity is determined that complicates the established study of advertising creativity. This is based on a …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
… race. Melodrama is a spectacular form that uses iconic images to move audiences to feel powerful emotions and to assign moral legibility to societal problems. Given the significant role of territorial expansion and chattel slavery in US history, race has always presented Americans with crucial …
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A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
… championed by the democratic West. Behind the iconic images of resistance and support lies a landscape shaped by enthusiasm and fear, solidarity and suspicion, moral commitment and strategic caution. Drawing on extensive research in Polish and many Western European archival repositories, this …
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Cidade e identidade: discursividades imagético-espaciais e a construção da identidade espacial do Recife, Veneza Brasileira
… contributed to the reading of both poetic and iconic images presented in the excerpts of poems from the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in: Manuel Bandeira s poems, Carlos Pena Filho s poems, and João Cabral de Melo Neto s poems which were produced in the early and late twentieth …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… culture of Udaipur have been widely described as iconic images representing the decadent "voluptuous inactivity" of Indian princes within idyllic palaces. More recently, scholars have interpreted such paintings as royal portraits constituting meaningful assertions of political and cultural power. …