Author: Hall, Rachel
Title: Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Description: Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Press, 2009. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. No jacket. xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. "Assembling an archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. Her narrative covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artists' approximations, and the depiction of key figures in the "war on terror. Vg. Missing jacket, Otherwise clean and unmarked.

Keywords: American History ; Wanted Posters ; ; History - American


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