Gudis Buyways

Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-95244-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural Spaces

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gudis, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Before the Car

Part I: Producing a Landscape of Signs
2. A Nation on Wheels
3. The Culture of Mobility
4. Producing Mobile Audiences and Corridors of Consumption
5. The Aesthetics of Speed and the Powers of "Picturization"
6. Modern Art and Advertising

Part II: Distributing Traffic and Trade: Decentralization and the Birth of the Strip
7. Visualizing Distribution
8. The Consolidation and Growth of National Advertising
9. Traffic and Trade: "Buying Power in Motion"
10. An Architecture of Mobility
11. The Strip

Part III: "The Billboard War": Scenic Sisters and the Business of Highway Beautification
12. "The Billboard War"
13. When Separate Spheres Collide
14. The Pastoral View
15. "Billboard Barons"
16. Zoning and the Road to Federal Legislation
17. Losers and Winners

Conclusion: The Road Ahead

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Gudis is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma and received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has worked for several museums, including The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and is the editor of numerous art books, among them Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s and A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation.