Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the
eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of
the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation,
and formal development as an iconic print genre. Her narrative
covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave
notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artists'
approximations, and the depiction of key figures in the "war on
terror." Hall's cultural analysis has profound implications for our
understanding of contemporary American fantasies of vulnerability,
projection of enemies around the world, and adoption of security
measures in domestic and foreign policy.
"Wanted "will appeal not only to students and scholars in
literary studies, cultural studies, and art history but also to
readers more generally interested in society's outlaws and in the
test of wills between law enforcement and criminal evasion.
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