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Title: The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism

Author : Adam R Ochonicky

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ISBN-10 : 0253045975

ISBN-13 : 9780253045973

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The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism BY Adam R Ochonicky

Read Online and Download The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism. How do works from film and literature-Sister Carrie, Meet Me in St. Louis, and A History of Violence, for example-imagine, reify, and reproduce American Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. 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 popular understandings and ideological uses of the Midwests place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual .

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