Postales del centro de Reno

Ensamblajes intermediales y culturales

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.45.040

Palabras clave:

Ensamblaje, Intermedialidad, Cultura estadounidense, Turismo

Resumen

El artículo examina las postales turísticas de lino que representan el centro de Reno en las décadas de 1930 y 1940. El artículo adopta la noción de ensamblaje para comprender estas postales como objetos culturales intermediales e identificar tensiones y resonancias entre colores, técnicas y materiales, medios de comunicación (incluido el cine), la imaginación pública de Reno en las novelas y películas literarias, y la experiencia cinematográfica de la ciudad y la expectativa de la representación afectiva de las postales. Además, el artículo muestra cómo las postales sirvieron como agentes culturales en la reformulación y la visión de Reno como “la ciudad más pequeña del mundo” y refugio para la cultura blanca “estadounidense”.

Biografía del autor/a

Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández, Department of Art. University of Nevada, Art, Art History, and Design Department

Is an assistant professor of Art History. His research of contemporary art at the intersection of moving images, photography, performance, collective memory, and decoloniality has been supported by several grants and been published in journals such as TDR/The Drama Review, Photographies, Revista de Estudios Sociales, and Photography and Culture, and books such as Walking with the Enemy: The Art of Subversive Mimicry in the Post-Truth Era (Manchester University Press, 2026), Pop Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), and Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2023).

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Publicado

30-11-2025

Cómo citar

Guerrero Hernández, J. C. (2025). Postales del centro de Reno: Ensamblajes intermediales y culturales. uadernos e istoria el rte, (45), 242–270. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.45.040