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Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People

Durante, Erica

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 303052650X
ISBN13: 9783030526504
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 4 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of international cultural productions, and elucidates the paradigms and narratives that constitute our current imaginary of air mobility. Erica Durante advances the hypothesis that fiction and film have converted the Airworld--the world of airplanes and airport infrastructures--into a pivotal anthropological place that is endowed with social significance and identity, suggesting that the assimilation of the sky into our cultural imaginary and lifestyle has metamorphosed human society into Cloud People. In its examination of the representations of air travel as an epicenter of today's world, the book not only illustrates a novel perspective on contemporary fiction, but fills an important gap in the study of globalization within literary and film studies.

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