Buyways [electronic resource] : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape / Catherine Gudis.
Material type: TextSeries: Cultural spaces seriesPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: viii, 333 p. : ill. (some col.)Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 659.13/42 22
- HF5843 .G83 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index..
Before the car -- Producing a landscape of signs -- A nation on wheels -- The culture of mobility -- Producing mobile audiences and corridors of consumption -- The aesthetics of speed and the powers of "picturization" -- Modern art and advertising -- Distributing traffic and trade: decentralization and the birth of the strip -- Visualizing distribution -- The consolidation and growth of national advertising -- Traffic and trade: "buying power in motion" -- An architecture of mobility -- The strip -- "The billboard war": scenic sisters and the business of highway beautification -- "The billboard war" -- When separate spheres collide -- The pastoral view -- "Billboard barons" -- Zoning and the road to federal legislation -- Losers and winners -- Conclusion: the road ahead.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.