Picture Freedom Evelyn Hu-DeHart Punathambekar develops a comparative and

Punathambekar develops a comparative and integrated approach that examines four different but interrelated media industries--film

and the life force within words—and major controversies—relating to race

Heartland TV exposes the cultural function of the Midwest as a site of national transference and disavowal with regard to race

film styles and audio-visual technologies

A simple vista parecen tiernas y cariñosas… pero en realidad guardan un asombroso secreto: ¡tienen superpoderes

Picture Freedom Evelyn Hu-DeHart Punathambekar develops a comparative andIn the decades leading up to the end of U. S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Jasmine Nichole Cobb analyzes the ways in which the circulation of various images