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Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre and Concurrent in Gender Studies and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several works of film and cultural studies, including Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction and The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975.

• ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. All Over the Map: Figurations of Mobility and Placelessness 1 • Ubiquitous: The Tramp’s Mobile Masculinity 2 • Uncivilized: World War II Mobilization and Homecoming as Social Problem 3 • Adrift: The Ambivalent Freedom of the Female Hitchhiker 4 • Trash: The Homeless as Urban Waste Epilogue. Stuck: Precarity and Perpetual Motion as Slow Death Notes Works Cited Index

"This will be an incredibly useful text for any student of media/film studies or American studies, and especially for those concerned with how contemporary art is processing the various crises of domesticity within the USA."