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Air Travel Fiction and Film : Cloud People / / by Erica Durante



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Autore: Durante Erica Visualizza persona
Titolo: Air Travel Fiction and Film : Cloud People / / by Erica Durante Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 809.3932161
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Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century
Fiction
Literature
Culture
Motion pictures - History
Human geography
Cultural geography
Contemporary Literature
Fiction Literature
World Literature
Global and International Culture
Film and TV History
Social and Cultural Geography
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Airworld as an In-Between Space -- 3. Time Out of Control -- 4. Luxury in the Sky with More than Diamonds -- 5. Cloud People: Identities and Paradoxes -- 6. Connections, Disconnections, and Reconnections.-7. Coda: Flying Over.
Sommario/riassunto: Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of international cultural productions, and elucidates the paradigms and narratives that constitute our current imaginary of air mobility. Erica Durante advances the hypothesis that fiction and film have converted the Airworld—the world of airplanes and airport infrastructures—into a pivotal anthropological place that is endowed with social significance and identity, suggesting that the assimilation of the sky into our cultural imaginary and lifestyle has metamorphosed human society into “Cloud People.” In its examination of the representations of air travel as an epicenter of today’s world, the book not only illustrates a novel perspective on contemporary fiction, but fills an important gap in the study of globalization within literary and film studies. .
Titolo autorizzato: Air Travel Fiction and Film  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-52651-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910484401503321
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Serie: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture