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In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical...

The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King s body of work: Death of Evil on the Seashore, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream, A Time to Break Silence, and I ve Been to the Mountaintop.
Taken collectively, these five works span both the duration of King s career as a public advocate but also represent the broad scope of his efforts to craft and project a persuasive vision a beloved community that persists through time.
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A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.

The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material...