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Making The Desert Bloom: Landscape Photography And Identity In The Owens Valley American West, Kaily A. Heitz
Making The Desert Bloom: Landscape Photography And Identity In The Owens Valley American West, Kaily A. Heitz
Pitzer Senior Theses
This thesis analyzes the way in which landscape photography has historically been used as a colonialist tool to perpetuate narratives of control over the American West during the mid to late 1800s. I use this framework to interrogate how these visual narratives enforced ideas about American identity and whiteness relative to power over the landscape, indigenous people and the Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Manzanar within Owens Valley, California. I argue that because photographic representation is controlled by colonist powers, images of people within the American West reinforce imperialist rhetoric that positions whiteness in control of the land; thus, white settlers used …
Funny Pages: Comic Strips And The American Family, 1930-1960, Dahnya Nicole Hernandez
Funny Pages: Comic Strips And The American Family, 1930-1960, Dahnya Nicole Hernandez
Pitzer Senior Theses
This thesis examines a selection of American newspaper comic strips from approximately 1930 to 1960. At the height of their runs, many strips appeared in upwards of a thousand newspapers in the United States alone, and syndicates crafted and adjusted the content of these strips according to their image of the average American. This work discusses the pop cultural significance of these strips as well as the traditional American values revealed through each of them. Three strips in particular are the focal point for this thesis: Blondie, created by Chic Young in 1930, Little Orphan Annie created by …