RSS Feed Test
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...
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...
RSS Feed Test
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...
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...
RSS Feeds
Jade Sasser
Catherine Gudis
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 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...
America's roadside reading; Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Catherine Gudis; Routledge: 334 pp., $22 Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place; John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle; University...
For most of the 20th century, America the Beautiful waged war with America the Prosperous over the issue of billboard advertising. This struggle is re...
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
Book Reviews
Appalachian Folkways
. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, glossary, references, and index, x+353...
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...
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...
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...
Carleton Watkins, Thomas Hill, and Frederick Law Olmsted : An Artist Focused Approach to Establishing an Understanding of the Burgeoning National Park System
Abstract not required for MA - Art History Thesis
BILLBOARD BARONS
While roadside reformers favored beauty over business and usually skirted the
financial implications of their choice, the organized outdoor advertisin...
Jitneys, Buses, and Public Transportation in Twentieth Century Los Angeles
This project uncovers the role of buses and their riders in shaping Los Angeles urban history in two crucial moments. First, while the private automob...
Engaging place, engaging practices : urban history and campus-community partnerships
"Engaging Place, Engaging Practices is an edited volume that explores the challenges and successes of campus-community collaborations grounded in urba...
CONCLUSION: THE ROAD AHEAD
While Lady Bird Johnson waxed poetic about the power of the birds and the
trees, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol were taking lessons they had
learned...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Foster reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
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...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Nunnally reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Acknowledgement to referees 2022
The quality of a journal is defnitely depending on the review process. The work laid down by our reviewers is essential for the increasing interest of...
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...
NOTES
Press, 1990), 152. The jumbled message of the multilayered posters was a popular subject for engravings
in the period. See, for instance, “The Bill-Po...
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...
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...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape.(Cultural Spaces.)
Friedman reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Buyways : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape
Zoning and the road to federal legislation -- Losers and winners -- Conclusion: the road ahead.
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis is reviewed.
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...
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...
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...
BELIEFS; Students' Work Opens Doors to Culture, History; Schoolchildren research and visit eight landmark Wilshire Boulevard- area houses of worship and compile a booklet as a guide for other youths: HOME EDITION
[Catherine Gudis] visited St. Basil's with the students. There, [Jacki Breger] pointed to the abstract windows, so different from the story- telling w...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. (Cultural Spaces.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. viii, 333. $22.00
A NATION ON WHEELS
In the densely populated cities of the late nineteenth century, outdoor advertisers had found ample audiences of pedestrians, carriages, and trolleys...
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...
Catherine Gudis Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape 2004 Routledge New York viii + 333 pages, US$22 paperback
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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)
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...
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...
“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...
"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...
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...
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...
Walking the Talk: Art, History, and the Politics of Public Participatory Memory in L.A.’s Skid Row
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...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Ahlgren 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...
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 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...
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...
Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Interventions on the Horizon
An increased understanding of the physiology and pathogenic mechanisms leading to infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) airways has led to a number of rec...
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...
THE BILLBOARD WAR
Both the warring women, named “scenic sisters” by scornful outdoor advertisers, and their billboard “brethren” (also called “boys” and oftentimes
“bar...
Review Essay: Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape: ROBERT D. BULLARD, GLENN S. JOHNSON, AND ANGEL O. TORRES, eds., Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 236, tables, notes,...
Several books are analyzed, including the following: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres' Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Plannin...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Figures
1. Poster 14, no. 12 (1923): 34. Outdoor Advertising Association of America Archives, John W.
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...
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...
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...
BEFORE THE CAR
As industrial America grew, so did advertising outdoors. Handbills and broadsides for farm machinery, auctions, runaway slaves, stagecoach schedules,...
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...
Not the way to honor Black Angelenos; Kevin de Leon wants to rename Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, who has a public memorial
"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....
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00
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-...
The Frontal Sinus : Surgical Approaches and Controversies
"This book will be a valuable resource for novice surgeons approaching one of the most challenging anatomical subsites, since it provides a stepwise a...
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...
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...
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...