<i>Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction</i> by Miles Orvell: (A Book Review)

Julia Faisst

doi:10.31261/rias.15408

Published: 2023-08-28

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023)

Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction by Miles Orvell

Julia Faisst

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https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.15408

(A Book Review)

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Julia Faisst's review of Miles Orvell's Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction

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Miles Orvell , Photography , Ruins

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Faisst, J. (2023). <i>Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction</i> by Miles Orvell: (A Book Review). Review of International American Studies, 16(1), 319–326. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.15408

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Julia Faisst is Professor and Acting Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. She received her PhD from Harvard University and her venia legendi from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. She has held the positions of Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University, Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Center for the Study of Culture at Giessen University, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University. She is author of Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature (Winter, 2012) and the habilitation/book-length manuscript Precarious Belongings: The Unmaking of the American Home, 1980s-Now, as well as co-editor of Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place (with Kerstin Schmidt, Brill/Rodopi, 2019) and David P. Boder’s I Did Not Interview the Dead (with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors, Winter, 2012).

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