Jack and Jackie sailing at Hyannis Port. President Kennedy smiling
and confident with the radiant first lady by his side in Dallas
shortly before the assassination. The Zapruder film. Jackie Kennedy
mourning at the funeral while her small son salutes the coffin.
These images have become larger than life; more than simply
photographs of a president, or of celebrities, or of a tragic
event, they have an extraordinary power to captivate--today as in
their own time. In Shooting Kennedy, David Lubin speculates on the
allure of these and other iconic images of the Kennedys, using them
to illuminate the entire American cultural landscape. He draws from
a spectacularly varied intellectual and visual
terrain--neoclassical painting, Victorian poetry, modern art,
Hollywood films, TV sitcoms--to show how the public came to
identify personally with the Kennedys and how, in so doing, they
came to understand their place in the world. This heady mix of art
history, cultural history, and popular culture offers an evocative,
consistently entertaining look at twentieth-century America.
Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Donna Reed, Playboy magazine, Jack
Ruby, the Rosenbergs, and many more personalities, little-known
events, and behind-the-scenes stories of the era enliven Lubin's
account as he unlocks the meaning of these photographs of the
Kennedys. Elegantly conceived, witty, and intellectually daring,
Shooting Kennedy becomes a stylish meditation on the changing
meanings of visual phenomena and the ways they affect our thinking
about the past, the present, and the process of history.
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