American Midwest in Film and Literature
American Midwest in Film and Literature How do works from film and literature--Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images…
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American Midwest in Film and Literature
How do works from film and literature--Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example--imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity?
Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Using the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner as a starting point, this book establishes a succession of Midwestern filmic and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century and argues that the manifold properties of nostalgia have continually transformed
Literature and Film
American Literature in Transition