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.
Erica Durante is Visiting Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University, USA. She is the author of two books, several edited books, and numerous articles in the fields of Comparative Literature and Global Studies.
1. Introduction.- 2. Airworld as an In-Between Space.- 3. Time Out of Control.- 4. Luxury in the Sky with More than Diamonds.- 5. Cloud People: Identities and Paradoxes.- 6. Connections, Disconnections, and Reconnections.-7. Coda: Flying Over.