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American Mobilities

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Culture StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • online resource
Other title:
  • Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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