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A Photographic Journey Along El Camino Real De Los Tejas, Christopher K. Talbot
A Photographic Journey Along El Camino Real De Los Tejas, Christopher K. Talbot
Faculty Publications
This is a photographic traveling exhibit in conjunction with the National Park Service. The exhibit was made possible through the Challenge Cost Share Program in cooperation with Stephen F. Austin State University. This matching fund program allows the National Park Service and partners to work together to preserve and improve resources on national trails. To view selected images from the project visit El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail.
American Myth-Busting, Joe Wilkins
American Myth-Busting, Joe Wilkins
Faculty Publications
In this essay, Joe Wilkins discusses the new breed of western films.
Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd
Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd
Faculty Publications
In this article, I analyse the function of Art Deco designs in the 1930s gangster genre and, in particular, Warner Brothers' Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937). Like many gangster films of the period, it associates high-style Art Deco with excess and the criminal underworld. My findings, however, reveal a tension between the film's moralist stance and its visual excess. Compelling visual signifiers of leisure, style and social mobility, the modern designs are free to circumvent the film's critical message and reinforce American capitalist ideologies. My analyses underscore Art Deco as an emblematic style of commercial modernity. Marked Woman and other gangster …