Elsa Court

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The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 (2020)Paperback - 2020, 8 January 2021

The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 (2020)
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Part of Series
Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
Print Length
193 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
8 Jan 2021
ISBN-10
3030367355
ISBN-13
9783030367350

Description

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 been shaped by and through white male émigré narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture. While stressing that these narratives are limited in their understanding of the processes of exclusion and unequal flux in experiences of modern automobility, the book works through four case studies in the American works of European-born authors Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wim Wenders to unveil an early phenomenology of the postwar American highway, one that anticipates the works of late-twentieth-century spatial theorists Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Marc Augé and sketches a postmodern aesthetic of western mobility and consumption that has become synonymous with contemporary America.

Product Details

Author:
Elsa Court
Book Edition:
2020
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
8 January 2021
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.12 cm
Genre:
20th Century
ISBN-10:
3030367355
ISBN-13:
9783030367350
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
193
Weight:
254.01 gm

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