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Unhomed
- Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Engelsk Paperback
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Unhomed
- Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
296
ISBN-13:
9780520390362
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520390369
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Udg. Dato:
9 apr 2024
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
9 apr 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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