Chick Flick Road Kill
A Behind the Scenes Odyssey into Movie-Made America
February 2007
Trade Paperback · 280 Pages
$15.95 U.S.
ISBN 9781580051941
Seal Press
Trade Paperback · 280 Pages
$15.95 U.S.
ISBN 9781580051941
Seal Press
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Description
As a child of the 1980s, Alicia Rebensdorf was raised by TV and movies. But when she, like so many of her generation, found herself a bored twentysomething, waitressing and wondering why life wasn't as she imagined it would be, she devised a plan: She'd visit the locations of the shows and movies she grew up with and try to come to terms with her nostalgia for places and scenes that purported a real America.
Chick Flick Road Kill explores Rebensdorf's relationship to popular culture and media mythology. From the streets of Fargo, North Dakota, to the bleachers of the still-intact field from The Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, Rebensdorf learns that her generation's sense of America is, indeed, as flat as its two-dimensional TV screens.
What's more, she discovers the America behind the Hollywood myth — one that's far more exciting when freed from the mystique and power of pop culture's romanticism.
Chick Flick Road Kill explores Rebensdorf's relationship to popular culture and media mythology. From the streets of Fargo, North Dakota, to the bleachers of the still-intact field from The Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, Rebensdorf learns that her generation's sense of America is, indeed, as flat as its two-dimensional TV screens.
What's more, she discovers the America behind the Hollywood myth — one that's far more exciting when freed from the mystique and power of pop culture's romanticism.