Air Travel Fiction And Film

Author : Erica Durante
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030526511

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Air Travel Fiction and Film by Erica Durante Pdf

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.

Author : Charles L. Wilkins
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1478768932

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The Thrill of Air Travel . . . the Agony of Being in the Airline Travel System by Charles L. Wilkins Pdf

Traveling by air can be one of the most exciting experiences that many of us ever have. But the annoyances of being in the travel system and concerns for our personal safety leave many travelers with negative images of air travel and cause many of us to shy away from air travel completely. In this book the author takes a light-hearted, fun approach to present much of the agony that travelers experience and what travelers, the air travel industry and individual airlines can do to change negative travel concerns and encounters and create positive experiences for everyone involved in air travel.

Author : Brian Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623567385

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Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television by Brian Baker Pdf

While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century has yet to emerge. Professor Brian Baker, evolving from his previous work Masculinities in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000, intervenes to rectify the scholarship in the field to produce a wide-ranging, readable text that deals with films and other texts produced since the year 2000. Focusing on representations of masculinity in cinema, popular fiction and television from the period 2000-2010, he argues that dominant forms of masculinity in Britain and the United States have become increasingly informed by anxiety, trauma and loss, and this has resulted in both narratives that reflect that trauma and others which attempt to return to a more complete and heroic form of masculinity. While focusing on a range of popular genres, such as Bond films, war movies, science fiction and the Gothic, the work places close analyses of individual films and texts in their cultural and historical contexts, arguing for the importance of these popular fictions in diagnosing how contemporary Britain and the United States understand themselves and their changing role in the world through the representation of men, fully recognising the issues of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age. Baker draws upon current work in mobility studies and in the study of masculinities to produce the first book-length comparative study of masculinity in popular culture of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : Sue Beeton
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781845415280

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Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image by Sue Beeton Pdf

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place that can affect our decision-making when we travel. It also analyses how our touristic experiences can inform our film-viewing. A range of genres and themes are studied including the significance of the western, espionage, road and gangster movies, along with further study of film studio theme parks and an introduction to the relationship between gaming and travel. This book will appeal to tourism scholars as well as film studies professionals, and is written in an accessible manner for a general audience.

Author : J. P. Telotte
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477327357

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Selling Science Fiction Cinema by J. P. Telotte Pdf

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These conditions, the leading media scholar J. P. Telotte argues, catalyzed the incredible rise of science fiction. Though science fiction films had existed since the earliest days of cinema, the SF genre as a whole continued to resist easy definition through the 1950s. In grappling with this developing genre, the industry began to consider new marketing approaches that viewed films as fluid texts and audiences as ever-changing. Drawing on trade reports, film reviews, pressbooks, trailers, and other archival materials, Selling Science Fiction Cinema reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and, in the process, shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another World, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob, as well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market to no-longer static audience expectations. Science fiction transformed the way Hollywood does business, just as Hollywood transformed the meaning of science fiction.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division,Marguerite Vogeding Quattlebaum
Publisher : Washington : Library of Congress, Processing Department, Subject Cataloging Division
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : MINN:31951000830035K

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Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress [from 1897 Through December 1955] by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division,Marguerite Vogeding Quattlebaum Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:438798576

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The air traveler's handbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisa Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569028

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Popular Fiction and Spatiality by Lisa Fletcher Pdf

This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.

Author : Betty Riegel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471112270

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Up in the Air by Betty Riegel Pdf

New York, 1961: the dawn of the commercial Jet Age and a golden era of air travel. Betty Riegel spent her early childhood hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped all around. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet and a father away at war, she had always dreamed of bigger things. After responding to an advert in the local newspaper she secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme, and at just 22-years-old was selected from thousands of eager young British women to begin a career that would change the course of her life. Betty said goodbye to everything she knew and boarded a plane to New York, a city full of noise, towering skyscrapers and promise. Under the watchful eye of her 'housemother', Dottie, Betty mastered the art of being the perfect Pan Am stewardess; everything from faultless etiquette, geography and safety to seamless make-up application, how to charm influential passengers and preparing five-course Parisian cuisine at 37,000 feet. But no amount of training could have prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air. Up in the Aircharts the gruelling yet fabulous life aboard the most iconic airline there has ever been, and how a young woman from Essex opened her eyes to the world and lived her dream.

Author : R.J Lambourne,M.J Shallis,M Shortland
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0852741413

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Close Encounters? by R.J Lambourne,M.J Shallis,M Shortland Pdf

Currently, science fiction in all its forms is enjoying enormous popular interest. There can be no doubt that science fiction books and films have great influence on the public view of science and scientists. Close Encounters? examines the historical development of science fiction as a genre in books and films, tracing its roots, examining its most common ideas, exploring its relationship to "real" science, and attempting to assess its cultural impact. Discussion focuses on major themes such as time travel, politics, religion, ecology, and disasters. The authors consider the science in science fiction, the images of scientists that science fiction conveys, and some of the political, religious, and social motifs prominent in science fiction. They also discuss pseudo-science and its growing influence on the public perception of science. This fascinating, thought-provoking study should be read by all those interested in how the nature of science and its role in our society is portrayed in science fiction.

Author : Jaś Elsner,Joan Pau Rubiés
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1861890206

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Voyages and Visions by Jaś Elsner,Joan Pau Rubiés Pdf

A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.

Author : Kenneth Hudson,Julian Pettifer
Publisher : Bodley Head
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035928154

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Diamonds in the Sky by Kenneth Hudson,Julian Pettifer Pdf

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434443717

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A Sense-of-Wonderful Century by Gary Westfahl Pdf

This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with essays providing more general overviews clustered near the beginning and end of the volume, to provide the overall aura of a historical survey. Although this book does not pretend to provide a comprehensive history of science fiction and fantasy films, it does intermingle analyses of films and TV programs with some discussions of related plays, novels, stories, and comic books, particularly in the essays on This Island Earth and 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels. Inciteful, entertaining, and full of intelligent and witty observations about science fiction and its sometimes curious relationship with the visual media, these essays will both delight and entertain critics, fans, and viewers alike.

Author : Mark Gottdiener
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110218265

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Life in the Air by Mark Gottdiener Pdf

This book is not just about air travel. It is about the emergent social world of flying. It concerns air space and behavior in the air the way someone else might look at cities and street behavior. Economic, political, and cultural aspects are all considered. . . . Airports have now become specific places in their own right that, in a certain sense, now. . . are very much like cities. Frequent flying also has produced its very own culture. Rules of behavior are subscribed to in the air. Unique behaviors at terminals and in the passenger cabin have emerged that contrast with life on the ground. In chapters below I explore these interesting aspects of etiquette, eroticism, and bi-coastalism, a human activity that is only possible because of our present society's evolution. . . . Only now have we begun to appreciate our emergent global culture. The world is shrinking just as the opportunities for travel expand. -from the Introduction

Author : A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 158544300X

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Imagining Flight by A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Imagining Flight is a history of the air age as the rest of us have experienced it: on the pages of books, the screens of movie theaters, and the front pages of newspapers. It focuses on the United States, but also contrasts American ideas and attitudes with those of other air-minded nations, including Britain, France, Germany and Japan.