American Framing

Author : Paul Andersen,Jayne Kelley,Paul Preissner
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 3038601950

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American Framing by Paul Andersen,Jayne Kelley,Paul Preissner Pdf

From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing-also known at the time as "Chicago construction"-quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class distinctions: no amount of money can buy you a better 2 x 4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country's high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture. American Framing is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new-the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.

Author : Karen Callaghan and Frauke Schnell, eds.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822972723

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Framing American Politics by Karen Callaghan and Frauke Schnell, eds. Pdf

Most issues in American political life are complex and multifaceted, subject to multiple interpretations and points of view. How issues are framed matters enormously for the way they are understood and debated. For example, is affirmative action a just means toward a diverse society, or is it reverse discrimination? Is the war on terror a defense of freedom and liberty, or is it an attack on privacy and other cherished constitutional rights? Bringing together some of the leading researchers in American politics, Framing American Politics explores the roles that interest groups, political elites, and the media play in framing political issues for the mass public. The contributors address some of the most hotly debated foreign and domestic policies in contemporary American life, focusing on both the origins and process of framing and its effects on citizens. In so doing, these scholars clearly demonstrate how frames can both enhance and hinder political participation and understanding.

Author : Kenn Oberrecht
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780811741927

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Home Book of Picture Framing by Kenn Oberrecht Pdf

Professional secrets of mounting, matting, framing, and displaying artwork, photos, collectibles, carvings, and more.

Author : Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611681901

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Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies by Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe Pdf

What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?

Author : Loren R. Cass
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791468569

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The Failures of American and European Climate Policy by Loren R. Cass Pdf

Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties.

Author : Ian Kalman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487539924

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Framing Borders by Ian Kalman Pdf

Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman observes a much more diverse range of interactions, from conflict to banality to joking and camaraderie. Framing Borders explores how border crossing represents a conversation where different actors "frame" themselves, the law, and the space that they occupy in diverse ways. Written in accessible, lively prose, Kalman addresses what goes on when border officers and Akwesasne residents meet, and what these exchanges tell us about the relationship between Indigenous actors and public servants in Canada. This book provides an ethnographic examination of the experiences of the border by Mohawk community members, the history of local border enforcement, and the paradoxes, self-contradictions, and confusions that underlie the border and its enforcement.

Author : Diana Kendall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442202252

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Framing Class by Diana Kendall Pdf

Framing Class explores how the media, including television, film, and news, depict wealth and poverty in the United States. Fully updated and revised throughout, the second edition of this groundbreaking book now includes discussions of new media, updated media sources, and provocative new examples from movies and television, such as The Real Housewives series and media portrayals of the new poor and corporate executives in the recent recession. The book introduces the concepts of class and media framing to students and analyzes how the media portray various social classes, from the elite to the very poor. Its accessible writing and powerful examples make it an ideal text or supplement for courses in sociology, American studies, and communications.

Author : Erika G. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317086437

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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan by Erika G. King Pdf

Situating Obama’s end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama’s December 2009 'surge-then-exit' strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe. Eloquently scrutinizing Obama’s discourse on the U.S. exit from two post-9/11 wars and contrasting the presidential endgame frame with the U.S. mainstream media’s narratives of the wars’ meaning, accomplishments, and denouement provides a unique combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies and makes this volume an ideal resource for scholars and researchers grappling with the complicated and ever-evolving nexus of war, the president, and the media.

Author : Silke Schmidt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839429150

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(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim by Silke Schmidt Pdf

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywood movies and TV news have the power to frame public discourse? This interdisciplinary study transfers media framing theory to literary studies to show how life writing (re-)frames Orientalist stereotypes. The innovative analysis of the post-9/11 autobiographies »West of Kabul, East of New York«, »Letters from Cairo«, and »Howling in Mesopotamia« makes a powerful claim to approach literature based on a theory of production and reception, thus enhancing the multi-disciplinary potential of framing theory.

Author : Anders Persson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317133537

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Framing Social Interaction (Open Access) by Anders Persson Pdf

This book is about Erving Goffman’s frame analysis as it, on the one hand, was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and, on the other, was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different aspects of social interaction such as face-work, impression management, fun in games, behavior in public places and stigmatization. There was, in other words, a frame analytic continuity in Goffman’s work. In an article published after his death in 1982, Goffman also maintained that he throughout his career had been studying the same object: the interaction order. In this book, the author states that Goffman also applied an overarching perspective on social interaction: the dynamic relation between ritualization, vulnerability and working consensus. However, there were also cracks in Goffman ́s work and one is shown here with reference to the leading question in Frame Analysis – what is it that’s going on here? While framed on a "microsocial" level, that question ties in with "the interaction order" and frame analysis as a method. If, however, it is framed on a societal level, it mirrors metareflective and metasocial manifestations of changes and unrest in the interaction order that, in some ways, herald the emphasis on contingency, uncertainty and risk in later sociology. Through analyses of social media as a possible new interaction order – where frame disputes are frequent – and of interactional power, the applicability of Goffman’s frame analysis is illustrated. As such, this book will appeal to scholars and students of social theory, classical sociology and social interaction.

Author : Philip Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136223037

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Re-framing Regional Development by Philip Cooke Pdf

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a ‘perfect storm’ for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis; the energy crisis; the banking and financial crisis; and the global economic crisis. This book analyses and proposes ways in which regional economies, in particular, are having to be ‘reframed’ to address these crises. First, many must evolve in new ways, possibly moving back from the ‘service economy’ towards a new, greener form of manufacturing of goods as well as services. Accordingly, regional economies are innovating in new ways. Amongst these are the quest for ‘relatedness’ within their own regional orbits, and promoting ‘modularity’ as a mode of analysis and a policy stance to stimulate innovation across industry and geographical borders. Finally, regional economies and societies are discovering that, from a ‘resilience’ perspective, they must find answers to the higher levels of governance with which they increasingly struggle. In this respect regional economies are in ‘transition’ and regional processes are ‘emergent’. The transition seeks to address the four crises, involving re-balancing, re-directing and re-framing future policy and practice. This book describes many of the novel ‘framings’ involved in understanding the new ways in which this major task is being addressed in theory, policy and everyday practice.

Author : Jacob Rama Berman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814789506

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American Arabesque by Jacob Rama Berman Pdf

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.

Author : Regis A. Duffy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608995349

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An American Emmaus by Regis A. Duffy Pdf

A penetrating study of the impact of culture on the Catholic Church in the U.S., and the importance of the Church to the culture."Emmaus," writes the author, "is not only the name of a town in the gospel of Luke. It is also a state of mind." He portrays the American Emmaus as an ongoing conversion walk of twentieth-century Christians who attempt to recognize the crucified and risen Christ within the complex and pluralistic cultures of the United States. He focuses on the connections between being Catholic and American at this point in history, challenges the Church to give witness to the gospel message, and shows how it is through liturgy (the gathered American community) that the Church once again takes the walk to Emmaus. Here are insights not only for Catholics but for Christians of every denomination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : House framing
ISBN : PURD:32754067869648

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Commentary on the Prescriptive Method for Residential Cold-formed Steel Framing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norma Basch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520231962

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Framing American Divorce by Norma Basch Pdf

Framing American Divorce is a boldly innovative exploration of the multiple meanings of divorce in American life during the formative years of both the nation and its law, roughly 1770 to 1870. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Basch enriches and complicates our understanding of the development of divorce law by telling her story from three discrete but overlapping perspectives. In "Rules" she tracks the broad public debate and legislation over the appropriate grounds for and long-term consequences of divorce. "Mediations" shifts to a close-up analysis of the way ordinary women and men tested the rules in the county courts. And "Representations" charts the spiraling imagery of divorce through stories that made their way into American popular culture.