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Jade Sasser
Climate anxiety and the kid question : deciding whether to have children in an uncertain future
"Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question looks at how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents--or n...
Debating Malthus : a documentary reader on population, resources, and the environment
"Does the environment pose limits to human population size and wellbeing? Or does human intelligence and resourcefulness ensure that environmental lim...
On Infertile Ground Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change
A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, Ameri...
Catherine Gudis
“We Don’t Mention the United States:” The Cultural Politics of Historical Interpretation Within the Settler State of Hawai’i at Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace
Through analyses of two foundational sites of the Hawaiian Kingdom—Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace—this dissertation offers an alternative interpr...
Oehlen Williams 95
"The Wexner Center invited artists Albert Oehlen and Christopher Williams to assume a curatorial guise in which they selected, edited, and designed an...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper)
Review of Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation
By the 1960s passenger trains were in serious decline, displaced by cars, airplanes, and railroad executives more interested in the cash earned from c...
Book Reviews
Appalachian Folkways
. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, glossary, references, and index, x+353...
THE BILLBOARD WAR
Both the warring women, named “scenic sisters” by scornful outdoor advertisers, and their billboard “brethren” (also called “boys” and oftentimes
“bar...
From Delinquents to Street Terrorists: L.A.'s War on Black and Chicanx Youth, 1945-1965
The history of policing and criminalization of young Black and Chicanx Angelinos from 1945 to 1965 reveals a central node in the development of L.A.’s...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Foster reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Playing in the Park: Winter Sports and Sports Spectacles in Yosemite, 1900–1950
Since its founding, the National Park Service has struggled with a dual mandate to both protect sites within its charge and provide for the enjoyment...
PRODUCING THE NORTH AMERICAN METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE
Seligman reviews Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta edited by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres; Buyways: Bil...
"Something Terrible Happened Here": Memory and Battlefield Preservation in the Construction of Race, Place, and Nation
This dissertation considers the changing place of race at nationally preserved battlefields from the Civil War and Indian Wars. As sites of contestati...
Superoxide Dismutase Reduces the Inflammatory Response to Aspergillus and Alternaria in Human Sinonasal Epithelial Cells Derived from Patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Aspergillus fumigatus and Alternaria alternata are ubiquitous environmental fungal allergens that can exacerbate airway inflammation and contribute to...
THE AESTHETICS OF SPEED AND THE POWERS OF “PICTURIZATION”
Reduced amounts of text and ornate images in outdoor advertisements of the
1920s suggest that advertisers struggled to make ads quickly legible to mot...
The Other LAPD
Based in Los Angeles’s Skid Row and comprised largely of the area’s formerly homeless, the Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances from th...
ZONING AND THE ROAD TO FEDERAL LEGISLATION
From the time she founded the National Roadside Council, Elizabeth Boyd
Lawton asked the fundamental question, “Why commercialize the entire
countrysi...
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble...
The State of Work: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics in the Inland Empire
“The State of Work: Transportation, Distribution, andLogistics in the Inland Empire” offers a comprehensiveexploration of the Transportation, Distribu...
BILLBOARD BARONS
While roadside reformers favored beauty over business and usually skirted the
financial implications of their choice, the organized outdoor advertisin...
Filipino America on the Palate: A Story of Filipinos’ Presentations of Culture Through Foodways in Urban and Suburban Los Angeles
This thesis examines the ways that Filipino restaurateurs have adjusted their presentations of culture through food in the United States from the mid-...
Catherine Gudis Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape 2004 Routledge New York and London
THE STRIP
A constellation of factors, including the activities of the outdoor advertising
industry, laid the groundwork for the commercial strip of the postwar...
THE CULTURE OF MOBILITY
The newly expanding highways were the logical place for outdoor advertising to develop since, as one industry commentator put it, the job of outdoor
a...
"A Separate and Distinct Tribal Entity : " The Resilience of the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma
From January to June 1873, a band of Modoc Natives fought the United States Army in the Lava Beds of Northern California over control of their homelan...
PRODUCING MOBILE AUDIENCES AND CORRIDORS OF CONSUMPTION
Salesmen for poster advertising explained that the appeal of the poster was
its outdoors setting, where nature “puts people in a friendly, cheerful, o...
Buyways : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape
Zoning and the road to federal legislation -- Losers and winners -- Conclusion: the road ahead.
Catherine Gudis Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape 2004 Routledge New York viii + 333 pages, US$22 paperback
LOSERS AND WINNERS
Though through the years the battle lines in the billboard war tended to be
drawn between aesthetics and business, the billboard advocates were not wi...
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 2: The story so far: Mrs. Kelly's class is taking a bus tour down Wilshire Boulevard to learn about the history and architecture of the Los Angeles area: HOME EDITION
The class returned to the bus and the driver carefully steered into the traffic of Wilshire Boulevard. Cars, city buses, tow trucks, delivery vans and...
Ray Johnson : correspondences
In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00
Not the way to honor Black Angelenos; Kevin de Leon wants to rename Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, who has a public memorial
Public culture : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States
In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with...
THE PASTORAL VIEW
Could one justify protecting areas in Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma as easily as California’s redwood forests or Hawaii’s tropical foliage and beac...
"Playa Politics: Technology, Nature, and Conflict at Southern California's Salton Sea."
When Anglo Americans first encountered Southern California’s Colorado Desert in the mid-nineteenth century, they were appalled by what they saw there....
VISUALIZING DISTRIBUTION
In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover announced with pride that
since the end of the Great War America’s ability to make quality goods had
rea...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Ahlgren reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
The Independiente "Mexican School": Pedagogies of Race, Place, and Citizenship in Riverside, Ca., 1918-1933
The following study is an examination of how racialized forms of citizenship were produced and reinforced pedagogically as part of placemaking efforts...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Catherine Gudis is an assistant professor at the University...
BEFORE THE CAR
As industrial America grew, so did advertising outdoors. Handbills and broadsides for farm machinery, auctions, runaway slaves, stagecoach schedules,...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Gudis, Catherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. (Cultural Spaces). 2004. c.304p. il...
Anxious Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America
The 1920s has had a reputation as being a fallow period in the history of American urban politics, having the image of being a decade when business el...
Driving consumption
Contribution to a "History and Technology" forum on Cotten Seiler's "Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America" (2008). Quest...
THE CONSOLIDATION AND GROWTH OF NATIONAL ADVERTISING
Though national advertising campaigns began in the nineteenth century, the
advertising boom really came with the twentieth. It accompanied such phenom...
Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold War
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold WarbyJosh R. Lieser...
The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space
As the urban environment decentralized in the 1920s and 1930s with the adoption of the car as a routine part of American life, the highway became more...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The quote above aptly summarizes the great variety of “folk” who have helped
me with this project. I am grateful for the intellectual support provided...
Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape
In Buyways, Catherine Gudis focuses on the development of the outdoor advertising industry in 20th century America, and its role in the commodificatio...
Filipino America on the Palate : A Story of Filipinos' Presentations of Culture Through Foodways in Urban and Suburban Los Angeles
This thesis examines the ways that Filipino restaurateurs have adjusted their presentations of culture through food in the United States from the mid-...
AN ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILITY
The changed locations and relationships between buyers and sellers in the age
of mass advertising and the automobile meant that advertisers, architect...
Policing Mental Health
"Last Day of Freedom" and "Code," two films that address different aspects of the intersection of mental health and law enforcement, will screen on Ju...
Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries : Introducing the Racial Sphere Model
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries: Introducing the Racial Sphere Model by Carol Kwang Park...
The road to consumption: Outdoor advertising and the American cultural landscape, 1917-1965
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the American landscape changed dramatically with the availability of automobiles, the construction of h...
Shaping Commemorative Imaginaries: The Case for Old Town Sacramento
This thesis explores the construction of the Old Sacramento Historic District during the post-war period. As a case study, this thesis explores how th...
A Forest of signs : art in the crisis of representation
A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broad...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Figures
1. Poster 14, no. 12 (1923): 34. Outdoor Advertising Association of America Archives, John W.
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 1: HOME EDITION
"But you see only a small part of it," said [Susan]. "Wilshire starts in downtown Los Angeles, continues through Beverly Hills and ends at the ocean i...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper)
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape, by Catherine Gudis, is reviewed.
Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles
The towers have become national civic emblems representing naïve modernist folk art; urban blight and racial segregation; and "popular notions of blac...
Making Home Again: Japanese American Resettlement in Post-World War II Los Angeles, 1945-1955
For Japanese incarcerated during World War II, returning “home” to Los Angeles was daunting. Often, though, Nisei deliberately kept experiences from t...
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
Remembering Bell Mountain: African American Landownership and Leisure in California’s High Desert During the Jim Crow Era
This dissertation is a biography of place that tells the story of Bell Mountain, an early twentieth-century African American homesteading community lo...
MODERN ART AND ADVERTISING
The question of effectiveness remained troublesome, even to an industry that
embraced the social sciences and sought to apply its techniques to busine...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape/America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place
Zelinsky reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and American Landscape by Catherine Gudis and America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place...
The Constituency Isn’t Digital: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Cultural Heritage
This thesis seeks to explore shifting paradigms in digital collections work in the twenty-first century. It puts into conversation different models of...
Lions & eagles & bulls : early American tavern & inn signs from the Connecticut Historical Society
"This catalogue - published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition - features works from The Connecticut Historical Society, which houses th...
WHEN SEPARATE SPHERES COLLIDE
Women of the middle and upper classes had been vocal opponents of billboards for some time before the proliferation of the automobile. Around the
turn...