The American roadside in Émigré literature, film, and photography : 1955-1985 / Elsa Court.
The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has b...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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| Series: | Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction By the Way: The Roadside as Other Space
- Chapter Two: "Stationary Trivialities": Life on the Margins in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955)
- Chapter Three: "Roadside Eye": Accidents and Epiphanies in Robert Frank's The Americans (1958)
- Chapter Four: "We're all in our private traps": Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and the Decline of the American Motel
- Chapter Five: Roadside Chronicles: Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984)
- Chapter Six: Conclusion: America Revisited.