Motels, Automobility, and Social Immobility in American Cinema

Childs, Danielle Rae

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 8September 28, 2023<September 30, 2023

Motels, Automobility, and Social Immobility in American Cinema

Danielle Rae Childs

Danielle Childs explores the transformation of the motel in American cinema from a temporary pit-stop to a post-recession purgatory that epitomizes marginalization and social immobility.