This article analyses the film Up in the Air (2009) to explore one of the ways in which mobilities are reflected in twenty-first century cinema. The film's main character, played by George Clooney, is presented as a hypermobile traveller who has adopted a rootless, nomadic lifestyle that enables him to move at will. Combining contemporary critical theories on mobility with close textual analysis, this article examines the specific type of mobility embodied by the film's protagonist, based on weightlessness and incessant, frictionless movement, as well as the effects that large-scale mobility has on people's identities and on the ways in which they relate to others. As will be argued, the representation of the protagonist's mobility changes ...
This short paper will just try and pick apart a couple of examples to reveal how mobilities are both...
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and ...
Mobility has been a significant influence in the formation of identities for individuals and for cer...
Airplanes have emerged as less and less peripheral spaces of cinematic fruition. Inflight entertainm...
The advent of heavier-than-air powered flight and the subsequent inauguration of regular passenger a...
This article explores a question of aeromobility and cultural geography by asking what it means to l...
This Special Issue on ‘Key Figures of Human Mobility’, edited by Jamie Coates and EASA’s former pres...
International audienceThis paper places into question the notion of hypermobility as a categorical f...
Nowadays, in Europe and the world, we experience the continued effervescence of mobility, dislocatio...
The present essay-review explores the conceptual limitations of mobility as an all encompassing theo...
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and ...
People have always been on the move, but human mobilities have been variously valued and interpreted...
International audienceRecent developments in transport systems and information technology applicatio...
The novel Small World is brimming with mobilities which can be largely embodied in endless academic ...
International audienceRight from the release of the film Dr. No (Terence Young, 1962), the hero’s mo...
This short paper will just try and pick apart a couple of examples to reveal how mobilities are both...
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and ...
Mobility has been a significant influence in the formation of identities for individuals and for cer...
Airplanes have emerged as less and less peripheral spaces of cinematic fruition. Inflight entertainm...
The advent of heavier-than-air powered flight and the subsequent inauguration of regular passenger a...
This article explores a question of aeromobility and cultural geography by asking what it means to l...
This Special Issue on ‘Key Figures of Human Mobility’, edited by Jamie Coates and EASA’s former pres...
International audienceThis paper places into question the notion of hypermobility as a categorical f...
Nowadays, in Europe and the world, we experience the continued effervescence of mobility, dislocatio...
The present essay-review explores the conceptual limitations of mobility as an all encompassing theo...
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and ...
People have always been on the move, but human mobilities have been variously valued and interpreted...
International audienceRecent developments in transport systems and information technology applicatio...
The novel Small World is brimming with mobilities which can be largely embodied in endless academic ...
International audienceRight from the release of the film Dr. No (Terence Young, 1962), the hero’s mo...
This short paper will just try and pick apart a couple of examples to reveal how mobilities are both...
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and ...
Mobility has been a significant influence in the formation of identities for individuals and for cer...