UID:
edoccha_9958088978202883
Format:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-3455-6
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies 14
Content:
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.
Content:
»Das Buch unterstreicht die Wichtigkeit, die Geschichte der Mobilität im 20. Jahrhundert zu schreiben und diese Geschichte in die bestimmenden sozialstrukturellen Entwicklungen der Moderne einzuordnen. Dazu bietet die Studie ein breites Panorama wertvoller Anknüpfungspunkte, nicht zuletzt durch ihre raumanalytischen Perspektiven.« Dirk Thomaschke, H-Soz-u-Kult, 05.01.2017 Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 4 (2016) The Chronicle, 30.09.2016
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Foreword 9 Introduction: American Mobilities 11 1. Reading White Trash 33 2. Incorporation and Embodiment 61 3. Who's Got the Car Keys? 107 4. Black-Audience Westerns 141 5. Space, Class, City 173 6. Home on the Range 191
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-3455-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
DOI:
10.14361/9783839434550
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