[ecrea] Making Photography Matter - Cara A. Finnegan & Postcards from Rio - Kátia da Costa Bezerra

New publications from University of Illinois Press and Fordham 
University Press

Free postage to UK customers

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/making-photography-matter

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*Making Photography Matter***

*A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression***

/Cara A. Finnegan///

*Winner, James A. Winans and Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for 
Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National 
Communication Association (NCA), 2016*

*Outstanding Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National 
Communication Association (NCA), 2015***

"The author uses plain language and homey metaphors to excellent effect. 
A solid and enticing piece of scholarly writing."—David M. Lubin, author 
of /Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images/

"Fine historical research. An important contribution to photographic 
studies."—Miles Orvell, author of /The Death and Life of Main Street: 
Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community/

"An original and important book that has historical, critical, and 
theoretical significance. Creatively and productively develops and 
extends a nascent and growing interest and perspective on the 
relationship between photography and public culture."—John Lucaites, 
author of /No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and 
Liberal Democracy/

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the 
late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their 
reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital 
as war, national identity, and citizenship.

Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, 
letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by 
viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. From 
the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child laborers and 
Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the photograph as a locus for 
viewer engagement and constructs a history of photography's viewers that 
shows how Americans used words about images to participate in the 
politics of their day. As she shows, encounters with photography helped 
viewers negotiate the emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life 
through not only persuasion but action, as well.

*Cara A. Finnegan*is an associate professor of communication at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of 
/Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs/.

University of Illinois Press | July 2017| 256pp | 9780252083129 | PB | 
£22.99*

20% discount with this code: CSL17FINNE**

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/postcards-from-rio

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*Postcards from Rio***

*Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship***

/Kátia da Costa Bezerra/

"Studying important cultural works that trace shifting socioeconomic, 
cultural, and political patterns in Brazil in recent decades, da Costa 
Bezerra reveals the presence and importance of new sociocultural actors 
from Brazil's economically disenfranchised communities. A rare study 
that tackles the convergence between culture and human rights in 
present-day Brazil."—Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico

“/Postcards from Rio/ is an important contribution to the 
interdisciplinary field of scholarship on urban life in Rio. Da Costa 
Bezerra argues that favela-based cultural producers are engaging in 
forms of production that challenge the dominant narrative about favelas 
as violent, ‘backward’ places. By taking photographs and making films, 
murals, and fiction, they are both working against the hegemonic 
narratives of these communities and changing the internal imaginaries of 
what favelas are about for those who live in them.”—Erika Robb Larkins, 
University of Oklahoma

Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural 
productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from 
Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban 
space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.

By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa Bezerra illustrates 
how citizens of favelas are reshaping their sense of belonging as 
subjects and as a legitimate part of the city. A groundbreaking study 
that examines more deeply the relationship between urban space, 
citizenship, and imagery originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio 
sheds crucial light on how contemporary lenses are defining and 
mediating the meanings of space and citizenship as strategies of 
empowerment. The city emerges as a political space where multiplicities 
of perspectives are intertwined with demands for more inclusive forms of 
governance.

*Kátia da Costa Bezerra*, Ph.D., is Professor and associate head of the 
Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. She 
has published in major journals and is a member of the /Transmodernity: 
Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World/ 
and /The Rocky Mountain Review/ editorial boards.

Fordham University Press | January 2017| 184pp | 9780823276554 | PB | 
£22.99*

20% discount with this code: CSL2017RIO**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia.

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