{"product_id":"american-icons-benedikt-feldges-9780415956352","title":"American Icons: The Genesis of a National Visual Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television's relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality structures much of the production and reception of televisual narratives. But as reality ought to become history at one point, what are we to do with such windows on the past?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeveloping and applying a highly innovative approach to the modern picture, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Icons\u003c\/em\u003e sets out to expose the historicity of icons, to reframe the history of the screen and to dissect the visual core of a medium that is still so poorly understood. Dismantling the aura of apparently timeless icons and past spectacles with their seductive power to attract the eye, this book offers new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benedikt Feldges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415956358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415956352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.48w x 0.95d","brand":"Benedikt Feldges","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086316155135,"sku":"9780415956352","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f2dd03b0-befa-42a1-b585-60bdd70d4265.jpg?v=1769093987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-icons-benedikt-feldges-9780415956352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}