Michael D. Dwyer is associate professor of Media and Communication at Arcadia University, where he teaches courses in Hollywood film, media studies, and writing. He is the author of Back to the Fifties (OUP, 2015). He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Rachel.

• Introduction: What Is the Rust Belt? Chapter 1: After the Flood, the Johnstown Landscape Chapter 2: Segregation Blues in Chicago Chapter 3: Erasing the Mistake on the Lake Chapter 4: Screening the Creative Class in Pittsburgh Chapter 5: Detroit, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Horrors of Precarity

Dwyer (Arcadia Univ.) uses the techniques of cultural geography to provide a portrait of major Rust Belt cities. He draws on films from the 1970s to those made in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to discuss the effects of deindustrialization and the ways that these cities reflect a larger landscape of despair, anxiety, insecurity, resignation, and apathy. ..Recommended.

Michael D. Dwyer is associate professor of Media and Communication at Arcadia University, where he teaches courses in Hollywood film, media studies, and writing. He is the author of Back to the Fifties (OUP, 2015). He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Rachel.

• Introduction: What Is the Rust Belt? Chapter 1: After the Flood, the Johnstown Landscape Chapter 2: Segregation Blues in Chicago Chapter 3: Erasing the Mistake on the Lake Chapter 4: Screening the Creative Class in Pittsburgh Chapter 5: Detroit, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Horrors of Precarity

Dwyer (Arcadia Univ.) uses the techniques of cultural geography to provide a portrait of major Rust Belt cities. He draws on films from the 1970s to those made in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to discuss the effects of deindustrialization and the ways that these cities reflect a larger landscape of despair, anxiety, insecurity, resignation, and apathy. ..Recommended.

Michael D. Dwyer is associate professor of Media and Communication at Arcadia University, where he teaches courses in Hollywood film, media studies, and writing. He is the author of Back to the Fifties (OUP, 2015). He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Rachel.

• Introduction: What Is the Rust Belt? Chapter 1: After the Flood, the Johnstown Landscape Chapter 2: Segregation Blues in Chicago Chapter 3: Erasing the Mistake on the Lake Chapter 4: Screening the Creative Class in Pittsburgh Chapter 5: Detroit, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Horrors of Precarity

Dwyer (Arcadia Univ.) uses the techniques of cultural geography to provide a portrait of major Rust Belt cities. He draws on films from the 1970s to those made in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to discuss the effects of deindustrialization and the ways that these cities reflect a larger landscape of despair, anxiety, insecurity, resignation, and apathy. ..Recommended.