Rodney Looking Beyond Borderlines

North America's Frontier Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-55275-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that parallels the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture.

This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the nineteenth century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodney, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sight and Site on the Line

Part I: The Territorial Imagination

Chapter One: Framing the Frontier: From Survey to Surveillance

Chapter Two: Homeland as Home Front: Terror, Territory and Television

Part II: Mobile Frontiers

Chapter Three: Exhibiting the Frontier: Thresholds and Checkpoints as Museological Projects

Chapter Four: Canada as the Borderline Case: ‘Outer America’ and the Northern Frontier

Part III: Modalities of Dissensus

Chapter Five: Psychogeography after NAFTA

Chapter Six: Sites of Dissensus: Aesthetics after the Border

Chapter Seven: Have you left the American Sector? Detroit’s Borderama Spectacle

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Rodney is Associate Professor of Media Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Windsor, Canada