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04821aam a2200601 i 4500 001 4C09EE744EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 190218t20202020inua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0253045967 020 $a 9780253045966 020 $a 0253045975 020 $a 9780253045973 035 $a (OCoLC)1086097871 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GZO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d EZC $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d QGK $d GZN $d QGK $d YDXIT $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d WAU $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS273 $b .O24 2020 050 4 $a PS169.M53 $b O24 2020 082 04 $a 810.9977 $2 23 082 04 $a 809.9335877 $2 23 100 1 $a Ochonicky, Adam R., $e author. 245 14 $a The American Midwest in film and literature : $b nostalgia, violence, and regionalism / $c Adam R. Ochonicky. 264 1 $a Bloomington, Indiana : $b Indiana University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 256 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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 Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? 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 Midwest's place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual objects: the projection of nostalgia onto physical landscapes and into the cultural sphere (nostalgic spatiality); nostalgia as a cultural force that regulates behaviors, identities, and appearances (nostalgic violence); and the progressive potential of nostalgia to generate an acknowledgment and possible rectification of ways in which the flawed past negatively affects the present (nostalgic atonement). While developing these new conceptions of nostalgia, Ochonicky reveals how an under-examined area of regional study has received critical attention throughout the histories of American film and literature, as well as in related materials and discourses. From the closing of the Western frontier to the polarized political and cultural climate of the 21st century, this book demonstrates how film and literature have been and continue to be vital forums for illuminating the complex interplay of regionalism and nostalgia. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231 - 241) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Nostalgia and Regionalism -- Part I. Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nostalgia and the Midwest: 1. Nostalgic Spatiality. 2. Spatial Constriction, Race, and Midwestern Stagnation. 3. Nostalgic Violence, Nebulous Spaces, and Blank Identities -- part II. The Millennial Midwest on Film: 4. Masculinity, Race, and Violence. 5. Locating Sincerity, Disillusionment, and Paranoia. 6. Nostalgic Atonement. Conclusion: Nostalgic Frontiers -- Afterword: Regionalism and Politics. 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Nostalgia in literature. 650 0 $a Nostalgia in motion pictures. 650 0 $a American literature $z Middle West. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Regionalism in literature. 650 0 $a Motion pictures and literature. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Literature and history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000077 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a Motion pictures and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027410 650 7 $a Nostalgia in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01039540 650 7 $a Nostalgia in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01039541 650 7 $a Regionalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093231 651 0 $a Middle West $x In literature. 651 0 $a Middle West $x In motion pictures. 651 7 $a Middle West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240052 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025106.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C09EE744EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search