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Record Nr.

UNISA996308780703316

Autore

Leyda Julia

Titolo

American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture / / Julia Leyda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-8394-3455-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

American Culture Studies ; 14

Classificazione

HU 1691

Disciplina

304.873

Soggetti

American literature - Social aspects - 20th century

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»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