Lee Rodney

Looking Beyond Borderlines (eBook, PDF)

North America's Frontier Imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317552758
• Artikelnr.: 47392930

Autorenporträt

Lee Rodney is Associate Professor of Media Art Histories and Visual Culture at the University of Windsor where she is currently Co-Director of the InTerminus Research Group. An interdisciplinary writer/curator, she has published on contemporary art, visual culture and urbanism in a range of books and publications including The Informal Market Worlds Atlas, Cartographies of Place, Future Anterior, Space and Culture, Parallax, Prefix Photo and PAJ: Performance Art Journal. Recent curatorial projects include the Border Bookmobile and the Frontier Files (frontierfiles.org).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sight and Site on the Line
Part I: The Territorial Imagination
1. Framing the Frontier: From Survey to Surveillance
2. Homeland as Home Front: Terror, Territory and Television
Part II: Mobile Frontiers
3. Exhibiting the Frontier: Thresholds and Checkpoints as Museological
Projects
4. Canada as the Borderline Case: 'Outer America' and the Northern Frontier
Part III: Modalities of Dissensus
5. Psychogeography after NAFTA
6. Sites of Dissensus: Aesthetics after the Border
7. Have you left the American Sector? Detroit's Borderama Spectacle