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Buyways [electronic resource] : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape / Catherine Gudis.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Cultural spaces seriesPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: viii, 333 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN:
  • 9780203494639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)
Contents:
Before the car -- Producing a landscape of signs -- A nation on wheels -- The culture of mobility -- Producing mobile audiences and corridors of consumption -- The aesthetics of speed and the powers of "picturization" -- Modern art and advertising -- Distributing traffic and trade: decentralization and the birth of the strip -- Visualizing distribution -- The consolidation and growth of national advertising -- Traffic and trade: "buying power in motion" -- An architecture of mobility -- The strip -- "The billboard war": scenic sisters and the business of highway beautification -- "The billboard war" -- When separate spheres collide -- The pastoral view -- "Billboard barons" -- Zoning and the road to federal legislation -- Losers and winners -- Conclusion: the road ahead.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index.

Before the car -- Producing a landscape of signs -- A nation on wheels -- The culture of mobility -- Producing mobile audiences and corridors of consumption -- The aesthetics of speed and the powers of "picturization" -- Modern art and advertising -- Distributing traffic and trade: decentralization and the birth of the strip -- Visualizing distribution -- The consolidation and growth of national advertising -- Traffic and trade: "buying power in motion" -- An architecture of mobility -- The strip -- "The billboard war": scenic sisters and the business of highway beautification -- "The billboard war" -- When separate spheres collide -- The pastoral view -- "Billboard barons" -- Zoning and the road to federal legislation -- Losers and winners -- Conclusion: the road ahead.

Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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