{"product_id":"unhomed-cycles-of-mobility-and-placelessness-in-american-cinema-paperback","title":"Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela Robertson Wojcik\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eNomadland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy admiration for this book is immense. Impeccably researched and written with compelling clarity and wit, \u003ci\u003eUnhomed\u003c\/i\u003e has much to teach us about film's participation in modern American life.--Dana Polan, author of \u003ci\u003eDreams of Flight: \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Escape\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein American Film and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Pamela Wojcik provides a fascinating look at recurring portrayals of uprooted, unhoused, and transient figures in American cinema, including silent-era tramps, World War II combat veterans, hitchhiking dames, Reagan-era street people, and the precariat. In doing so, she unearths contradictory longings for both home and mobility, fixity and freedom at the heart of American culture.\"--Shelley Stamp, author of \u003ci\u003eLois Weber in Early Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela Robertson Wojcik\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre and Concurrent in Gender Studies and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several works of film and cultural studies, including \u003ci\u003eFantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44250736197683,"sku":"9780520390362","price":136.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/yZlYOj34rG9780520390362.webp?v=1777859653","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/unhomed-cycles-of-mobility-and-placelessness-in-american-cinema-paperback","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}