Flyover fictions polarization in U.S.-American culture, media, and politics / edited by Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann.

Other author Klecker, Cornelia
Other author Pöhlmann, Sascha
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Descriptionvii, 342 pages illustrations 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Polarization (Social sciences)--United States. --History. --21st century.
Literature and society--United States. --History. --21st century.
Mass media and culture--United States. --History. --21st century.
Politics and culture--United States. --History. --21st century.
United States--Social conditions. --21st century.

Physical mediumillustrations
Contents Introduction : what are flyover fictions? / Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann -- Part 1. Flyover fictions and contemporary U.S.-American politics -- Rethinking "flyovercCountry" in the age of American hyper-polarization / Anthony Harkins -- Flyover fiction as Republican identity politics / Cornelia Klecker -- Part 2. Constructing flyover fictions in and with film -- "If you build it..." : the sports experience economy and heartland dreams / Victoria E. Johnson -- Flying over the "forgotten man" : affective affordances, sentimentalism, and white working-class masculinity in contemporary U.S. cinema / Stefan Schubert -- Acceleration, vacancy, and insiders/outsiders : the Midwestern gothic in It Follows (2014) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) / Adam R. Ochonicky -- Part 3. Flyover fictions in twentieth-century literature -- The literary beginnings of flyover fiction in the 1920s / Sascha Pöhlmann -- Writing the Midwest in exile : Robert McAlmon's village : as it happened through a fifteen year period (1924) and queer distance / Ben Robbins -- Flying over a lynching : constructions of group identity in Ralph Ellison's "A Party Down at the Square" / Martin Holtz -- Part 4. Flyover fictions in twenty-first-century literature -- Aerial views, pedestrian ways : fragmentation in D.J. Waldie's Holy Land / Dominika Ferens -- "A little agony was just what this place needed" : looking for California in Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold Fame Citrus and Lydia Kiesling's The Golden State / Michael Docherty -- Destination flyover state : the transnational perspective of Joachim Meyerhoff's All the Dead Fly Up : America / Sandra Tausel -- Part 5. Finding flyover fictions (in unusual places and unusual ways) -- Looking back to move forward? : constructing medieval heritage in the Midwest / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Kristan Cockerill -- Straight TikTok as digital flyover country / Mark Nunes -- Literary epilogue -- Watchmaking : an original short story / Tom Drury.
Abstract "Flyover Fictions critically engages with the history and contemporary usage of the flyover trope in U.S.-American culture, and it is the first volume to repurpose the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies to analyze particular processes of imagining community"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2024033912
ISBN9781496238993 hardback
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