Unhomed - Wojcik, Pamela Robertson
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"My admiration for this book is immense. Impeccably researched and written with compelling clarity and wit, Unhomed has much to teach us about film's participation in modern American life."--Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture "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…mehr

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"My admiration for this book is immense. Impeccably researched and written with compelling clarity and wit, Unhomed has much to teach us about film's participation in modern American life."--Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture "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 Lois Weber in Early Hollywood
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Pamela Robertson Wojcik 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 Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction and The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975.