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Hardcover Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction Book
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ISBN: 0190491604

ISBN13: 9780190491604

Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction

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Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and filmmakers have responded to ruin and destruction, both...

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