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Unhomed

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
Englisch
University of California Presserschienen am09.04.2024
In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed-characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.mehr
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KlappentextIn this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed-characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-520-39036-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum09.04.2024
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 229 mm, Höhe 153 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht414 g
Artikel-Nr.61057879

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments Introduction. All Over the Map: Figurations of Mobility and Placelessness  1 - Ubiquitous: The Tramp´s Mobile Masculinity  2 - Uncivilized: World War II Mobilization and Homecoming as Social Problem  3 - Adrift: The Ambivalent Freedom of the Female Hitchhiker  4 - Trash: The Homeless as Urban Waste  Epilogue. Stuck: Precarity and Perpetual Motion as Slow Death  Notes  Works Cited  Indexmehr

Autor

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre and Concurrent in Gender Studies and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several works of film and cultural studies, including Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction and The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975.