Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965 - by Karen L Ching Carter (Paperback)

About the Book

This book explores the ways in which mid-twentieth-century Life Magazine editors employed the photo-essay as a narrative art form to overcome racist stereotypes about Asian women and envision them instead as part of the American middle class.

Book Synopsis

This book explores the ways in which mid-twentieth-century Life Magazine editors employed the photo-essay as a narrative art form to overcome racist stereotypes about Asian women and envision them instead as part of the American middle class.

Review Quotes

A very exciting discussion on how visual semiotics were used to construct different narratives of Asian Americans though the pages of one of the most famous and long running magazine series ever published. Carter shows how the photo essays in Life Magazine helped to shape the various stereotypes of Asians in America by examining the both the composition of the images and their placement in relation to each other. This book is an excellent example of multimodal analysis wielded with a critical eye.

About the Author

Karen L. Ching Carter is senior lecturer in English at the University of Vaasa, FI.