Between here and cool: Image-text and double literacy in the American road story.
详细信息
- 作者：Durant ; Stephanie Diane.
- 学历：Ph.D.
- 年：2013
- 导师：Waligore, Marilyn,eadvisorRabe, Stephen G.ecommittee memberBondurant, Mattecommittee memberBriante, Susanecommittee member
- 毕业院校：The University of Texas
- Department：Humanities-Aesthetic Studies
- ISBN：9781303167034
- CBH：3565986
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：118877893
- Pages：174
文摘
It all started with a title. Like Ed Ruscha&rsquo；s Twentysix Gasoline Stations, "Between Here and Cool" arose out of a phrase stuck in my head like a bull nettle stuck to my sock. Rub cow manure on a bull nettle sting, my grandmother would say.) I had to do something with it. And so I drove: traveling the back roads and blue highways, it was 5,926.4 miles between here and Cool&mdash；between Cool, Texas； Cool, California； Cool, Iowa； and home again. Boldly, and sometimes foolishly, I encountered the American landscape and its dreams, pushing my own automobility far beyond what I ever thought possible on the road actual and metaphorical). In the grand tradition of the American road story, I documented my 18-day experience through image and text, relic and road-trip ephemera. This happened: 1 moving violation warning)； 30 minutes at a Border Patrol checkpoint； 2 more Border Patrol checkpoints； 1 wedding ceremony； 1 friend&rsquo；s birthday missed)； 18 souvenir t-shirts； 22 souvenir coffee mugs Wyoming has the best coffee mugs.)； 1 evening worrying about the upcoming 3 days in the Grand Canyon； 3 days in the Grand Canyon； 1 Bridgestone Insignia SE 15" tire punctured)； 2 mechanics； 29 postcards； 46 roughly) dropped calls； 1/4 lb of Green&rsquo；s Creek Gruyere I left my cheese in Marfa.)； 17 stops for gas； 14 motel beds； 54 meals； 6 cameras； 56 rolls of film； more than 1 way to go； more than 1 dead end. The research aspect of Between Here and Cool takes its inspiration from the road as well, looking specifically at the ideas of image and text image-text, image/text, and imagetext) and double literacy in American road stories and expanding the road genre itself to more accurately include photography and artist&rsquo；s books. Postmodern road fiction and its employ of imagery, whether photographic or otherwise, is also of importance in this critical study of how images can both contribute to as well as confound the narrative and its myriad forms.