ISBN:
9780773540750
,
9780773540767
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 329 S.
DDC:
306.48190973
Keywords:
Travel / Social aspects / United States / History
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Migration, Internal / Social aspects / United States / History
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Road films / United States / History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, American / History and criticism
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Reise
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Straße
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Massenkultur
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Straße
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USA
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USA
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
;
Straße
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Reise
;
Straße
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Massenkultur
Description / Table of Contents:
Mapping the trope : a historical and cultural journey / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Politics, people moving, and the American myth of the road / Max J. Skidmore -- The road in American vernacular music / Susan Kuyper -- "So that we as a race might have something authentic to travel by" : African-American automobility and Cold-War liberalism / Cotten Seiler -- Witnesses, wanderers, and writers : women on the "beat" road / Eleanor Elson Heginbotham -- Assassin in a three-piece suit : Slow fire, minimalism, and the eighties / Paul Attinello -- Complicating The simple life : reality television and the road / Stacilee Ford -- Postmodern masculinities in recent buddy and solo road films / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Transamerica : queer cinema in the middle of the road / Gina Marchetti -- Fools on the American road : "Gimpel the fool," The Frisco kid, and Forrest Gump / Wendy Zierler -- Generically mobile : the projection of protocol from the road movie to virtual reality and video games / Michael Truscello
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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