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The Iconography Of Nationalism: Icons, Popular Culture, And American Nationalism, Dallas Hulsey
The Iconography Of Nationalism: Icons, Popular Culture, And American Nationalism, Dallas Hulsey
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Iconography of Nationalism: Icons, Popular Culture, and American Nationalism develops a model of cultural icons, defining icons as highly visible, culturally variable, and overdetermined auratic images. Situating icons within the context of mass reproduction technologies and American nationalism, this study seeks to demystify the simple images presented by infantile, national, and scapegoat icons in literature, film, and political rhetoric. This dissertation argues that icons participate in the American nationalist project by channeling citizens’ political and patriotic feelings through seemingly simple images. While acknowledging that icons are necessary to construct what Benedict Anderson calls “the imagined community” of the nation, …