Air Travel Fiction and Film : Cloud People /: Cloud People. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Erica Durante.
• Authors: Durante, Erica
• Contents: 1. Introduction 1.1 Skyward 1.2 From aeromobilities to airportness 1.3 From airborne to air-born: Cloud People 1.4 The Airworld as a methodology 2. The Airworld as an In-Between Space 2.1 Urban center versus airport periphery 2.2 The traveler and the absent city 2.3 Globalizing the local 2.4 Crossing(s) from the micro-world to the meta-world 2.5 The telephone as a cable between the city and the Airworld 3. Time Out of Control 3.1 The ever-present and unrelenting burden of time 3.2 Crystallized waiting time 3.3 The compressed time of jet lag 4. Luxury in the Sky with More than Diamonds 4.1 Luxury as an air travel brand 4.2 Semiotics of luxury 4.3 Fashion and the eroticization of the air cabin crew 5. Cloud People: Identities and Paradoxes 5.1 Airworld personnel 5.2 The fluid passenger 5.3 The vulnerable passenger 6. Connections, Disconnections, and Reconnections 6.1 Airborne families and relationships 6.2 Chance encounters and existential turning points 6.3 Love out of the blue 7. Coda: Flying Over.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Fiction; Literature ; Culture; Cultural geography; Fiction -- General; Social Science -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Social Science -- Human Geography; Fiction & related items; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Human geography; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literature, Modern--20th century; Literature, Modern--21st century; Motion pictures--History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030526511
• Related ISBNs: 9783030526504
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.