Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: American Mobilities -- 1. Reading White Trash -- 2. Incorporation and Embodiment -- 3. Who's Got the Car Keys? -- 4. Black-Audience Westerns -- 5. Space, Class, City -- 6. Home on the Range
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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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9783839434550
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American literature--Social aspects--20th century. Human geography--United States. Migration, Internal--History--United States--20th century. Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States. Popular culture--United States. Sex role--United States. Social mobility--United States. America. American History. American Studies. Capital Flows. Contemporary History. Cultural History. Cultural Studies. Culture. Film. Global Financial Crisis. Great Depression. Labour Flows. Mobility. USA. Film Mobilität Literatur Gruppe SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.