Record details

• ISBN: 0816656010
• ISBN: 9780816656011
• ISBN: 0816656010
• ISBN: 9780816656028
• ISBN: 0816656029
• Physical Description: 193 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, �2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Some chapters previously published in various sources between 1992 and 2007.

Formatted Contents Note:

Every picture tells a story -- pt. I. States of amnesia -- Lost in translation -- On romanticism -- After the gold rush -- Land of a thousand dances -- The big movie -- The ground beneath our feet -- Homeland insecurity -- pt. II. Everything we make is art -- Americans without tears -- Delta 150 -- Luna remembers -- Standoff in Lethbridge -- Struck by lightning -- Meaning of life -- States of amnesia -- pt. III. Jukebox spiritualism -- A place called irony -- Life during peacetime -- Last gang in town -- From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station -- Ghost in the machine -- Afterword : end of the line -- Acknowledgments -- Publication history.

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