Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in Appalachia
The article investigates how press photographs shaped poverty discourses in the historical context of the War on Poverty. Using a picture of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a presumably poor woman as a case study, it examines how iconographic elements and the visualized rhetorical pattern of the Ame...
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Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
2012-05-01
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| description | The article investigates how press photographs shaped poverty discourses in the historical context of the War on Poverty. Using a picture of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a presumably poor woman as a case study, it examines how iconographic elements and the visualized rhetorical pattern of the American jeremiad serve to situate the poor within dominant middle-class ideologies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3f4b676fa14b4f0abeaec67747a7037d2024-11-15T07:54:39ZengRegensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies1861-61272012-05-011310.5283/copas.143Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in AppalachiaKatharina Fackler0University of RegensburgThe article investigates how press photographs shaped poverty discourses in the historical context of the War on Poverty. Using a picture of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a presumably poor woman as a case study, it examines how iconographic elements and the visualized rhetorical pattern of the American jeremiad serve to situate the poor within dominant middle-class ideologies.https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/143 |
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| title | Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in Appalachia |
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