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In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas
A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War
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Visualizing Orientalness
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In the early twentieth century Hollywood was fascinated by the Far East. Chinese immigrants, however, were excluded since 1882 and racism pervaded U.S. society.