Picturing Casablanca : portraits of power in a modern city / Susan Ossman.

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Ossman, Susan, author.

Title & Author:

Picturing Casablanca : portraits of power in a modern city / Susan Ossman.

Publication:

Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
1. Urbanity as a Way to Move -- 2. Televisions as Borders -- 3. Creating Sights: The City as Event -- 4. Time's Power -- 5. Objects and Objections -- 6. Portraits and Powers -- 7. Take My Picture! Wedding Videos and Invisible Brides.

Summary:

In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, traditions, and structures of power are in flux. -- Publisher description.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520084020 (alk. paper)
9780520084025 (alk. paper)
0520084039 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520084032 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Morocco.
power.
urban society.
urban life.
Manners and customs
Civilization
Stadscultuur.
Visuele aspecten.
City and town life Morocco Casablanca.
Casablanca (Morocco) Civilization.
Casablanca (Morocco) History.
Casablanca (Morocco) Social life and customs.
Morocco Casablanca
Casablanca
Casablanca (Maroc) Civilisation.
Culture

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284759
Call No.: BIB 223903
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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