Unhomed: cycles of mobility and placelessness in American cinema
"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters as unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed: failing, resis...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2024]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In this rich cultural history, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters as unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed: failing, resisting, or opting out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the Silent Era to the Oscar-winning Nomadland in 2021, Wojcik shows how film cycles reveal a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as, on the one hand, deviant or threatening, and, on the other, 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 the American cinema (and American story) all along"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 277 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780520390355 9780520390362 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction. All over the map : figurations of mobility and placelessness -- Ubiquitous : the tramp's mobile masculinity -- Uncivilized : World War II mobilization and homecoming as social problem -- Adrift : the ambivalent freedom of the female hitchhiker -- Trash : the homeless as urban waste -- Epilogue. Stuck : perpetual motion and/as slow death | |
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| contents | Introduction. All over the map : figurations of mobility and placelessness -- Ubiquitous : the tramp's mobile masculinity -- Uncivilized : World War II mobilization and homecoming as social problem -- Adrift : the ambivalent freedom of the female hitchhiker -- Trash : the homeless as urban waste -- Epilogue. Stuck : perpetual motion and/as slow death |
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