Title: ConFiguring America : iconic figures, visuality, and the American identity /
Authors: Rieser-Wohlfarter, Klaus,; Fuchs, Michael, 1981-; Phillips, Michael,; Rieser-Wohlfarter, Klaus,; Fuchs, Michael, 1981-; Phillips, Michael; Eileraas, Karina, 1971-
Year: 2013
Subjects: National characteristics, American; Popular culture United States History; Celebrities United States; Symbolism Social aspects United States History; Group identity United States History; Arts and society United States History
Contents: Part I. Icons and the struggle over meaning -- `Just like you', but not like us : staging national belonging, multiracial femininity, and collective memory in the American Girl family / Karina Eileraas -- Behind the brown mask : Joe Louis' face and the construction of racial mythologies / Marcy S. Sacks -- LeBron James and the web of discourse : iconic sports figures and semantic struggles / Michael Phillips -- Part II. Appropriating iconic figures -- O Superman : the many faces of the Man of Steel / Bradley Bailey -- Thirty are better than one : Marilyn Monroe and the performance of Americanness / Susanne Hamscha -- Queering cowboys, queering futurity : the re/construction of American cowboy masculinity / Leopold Lippert -- Iconizing radical change : how Gary Cooper led Poland to freedom / Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel --