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'The Man of the Hour': Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting

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'The Man of the Hour' : Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting. / Gilloch, Graeme.

In: Arts, Vol. 8, No. 2, 53, 17.04.2019.

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Gilloch, G 2019, ''The Man of the Hour': Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting', Arts, vol. 8, no. 2, 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020053

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Gilloch, G. (2019). 'The Man of the Hour': Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting. Arts, 8(2), [53]. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020053

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Gilloch G. 'The Man of the Hour': Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting. Arts. 2019 Apr 17;8(2):53. doi: 10.3390/arts8020053

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Gilloch, Graeme. / 'The Man of the Hour' : Hawthorn(e), 'Nebraska' and Haunting. In: Arts. 2019 ; Vol. 8, No. 2.

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abstract = "Abstract: This paper provides a close reading and critical unfolding of central themes and motifs in Alexander Payne{\textquoteright}s acclaimed 2013 comic {\textquoteleft}road movie{\textquoteright} Nebraska. It focuses on three key issues: (1) the symbolic significance of hawthorn as a threshold between different worlds (Hawthorne, Nebraska being the former hometown to which father and son make a detour); (2) the notion of {\textquoteleft}haunting{\textquoteright} in relation both to {\textquoteleft}importuning{\textquoteright} memories besetting the central characters and to particular sites of remembrance to which they return; and, (3) how the film{\textquoteright}s pervasive mood of melancholy is subject to repeated interruption and punctuation by comic utterances and put-downs. In presenting us with a reluctant {\textquoteleft}gathering of ghosts{\textquoteright}, a veritable phantasmagoria, the film articulates a particular sense of nostalgia, of a {\textquoteleft}homesickness{\textquoteright} understood here not in the conventional meaning of a longing to return to a forsaken {\textquoteleft}home{\textquoteright}, but rather as a weariness and wariness at the prospect of revisiting familiar haunts and reviving old spirits.Keywords: memory; film; dreamworlds; arcades; ghosts; haunting",
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