Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City

by Susan Ossman

Book Overview

In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, traditions, and structures of power are in flux. Ossman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084039
• ISBN13: 9780520084032
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"