Background
Bloom, Lisa Ellen was born on August 20, 1958 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Elliott and Flora Bloom.
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In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video, defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early 20th century to the present. She goes on to analyze gendered and racial constructions and idioms of American identity by examining the powerful and continuing cultural investment in the legacy of the so-called discovery of the North Pole in 1909, and the ongoing celebration of white explorers, such as Robert Peary, as "heroes". Her analysis of the polar expedition opens up contemporary questions in cultural studies about gender, race, male sexuality and social relations of science. Bloom demonstrates how the North Pole's literal emptiness made polar expedition appear in the dominant media as an intrinsically pure field of knowledge, rather than a form of colonial discourse. She portrays the National Geographic Society as a magazine and institution that tied itself to the national image of the United States in the early 20th century and seized the poles and polar expeditions as a metaphor for modernity and progress. By focusing on the development and legitimation of an American national discourse and identity that excludes women and people of colour, "Gender on Ice" offers a significant contribution to current debates on multiculturalism.
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critic Art history and women's studies educator
Bloom, Lisa Ellen was born on August 20, 1958 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Elliott and Flora Bloom.
Bachelor, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1980. Master of Fine Arts, Rochester (New York ) Institute of Technology, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Santa Cruz, 1990.
Lecturer, art history board, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989-1991; lecturer art history department, University of California, Irvine, 1991-1992; lecturer liberal studies department, Rhode Island School Design, 1993; visiting assistant professor art department, Stanford University, since 1993. Editorial assistant Afterimage Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, 1983-1984.
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Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, College Art Association, Society Cinema Studies, Society Photographic Education.