Reading National Geographic

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Catherine A. Lutz

页数:328

出版时间:1993-11-1

价格:$30.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780226497242

具体描述

For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own.

Lutz and Collins take us inside the National Geographic Society to investigate how its photographers, editors, and designers select images and text to produce representations of Third World cultures. Through interviews with the editors, they describe the process as one of negotiating standards of "balance" and "objectivity," informational content and visual beauty. Then, in a close reading of some six hundred photographs, they examine issues of race, gender, privilege, progress, and modernity through an analysis of the way such things as color, pose, framing, and vantage point are used in representations of non-Western peoples. Finally, through extensive interviews with readers, the authors assess how the cultural narratives of the magazine are received and interpreted, and identify a tension between the desire to know about other peoples and their ways and the wish to validate middle-class American values.

The result is a complex portrait of an institution and its role in promoting a kind of conservative humanism that acknowledges universal values and celebrates diversity while it allows readers to relegate non-Western peoples to an earlier stage of progress. We see the magazine and the Society as a key middlebrow arbiter of taste, wealth, and power in America, and we get a telling glimpse into middle-class American culture and all the wishes, assumptions, and fears it brings to bear on our armchair explorations of the world.

作者简介

Catherine A. Lutz is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University.

Jane L. Collins is professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

目录信息

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography
2. Becoming America’s Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century
3. Inside the Great Machinery of Desire
4. A World Brightly Different: Photographic Conventions, 1950-1986
5. Fashions in the Ethnic Other
6. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender
7. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes
8. The Readers’ Imagined Geographic: An Evolutionary Tale
9. The Pleasures and Possibilities of Reading
Epilogue
Appendix A: Photograph Codes
Appendix B: Photographs Discussed in Interviews
References
Index
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第二章从美国国家地理协会（NGS）的历史谈摄影在科学与娱乐之间的关系。第六章谈到摄影中的女性身体与裸体。第七章谈到不同观看主体的多元凝视。

第二章从美国国家地理协会（NGS）的历史谈摄影在科学与娱乐之间的关系。第六章谈到摄影中的女性身体与裸体。第七章谈到不同观看主体的多元凝视。

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第二章从美国国家地理协会（NGS）的历史谈摄影在科学与娱乐之间的关系。第六章谈到摄影中的女性身体与裸体。第七章谈到不同观看主体的多元凝视。