David Goodis’s Noir Fiction: The American Dream’s Paralysis by Robert Lance Snyder

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Evolving Attitudes To the American Dream: Death of a Salesman in the Turkish Context by Laurence Raw

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Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream by Wayne E. Arnold

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“Ain’t the American Dream Grand”: Satirical Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V by John Wills

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Sueños interrumpidos: el american dream en Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos by Lucas Gagliardi

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Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Paolo Pitari

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Protecting the American dream for socially vulnerable families: An evaluation of state-level policies to improve housing security and protect mobile home communities by Morgan Clennin, Denise Hartsock, Olivia Goodman, Stacie Daugherty, Cheryl Kelly

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Where heroes have to tread: spatialization in american fiction by Salwa Karoui-Elounelli

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Ross Macdonald, Redivivus? by Robert Lance Snyder

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From Independence Day to Land of Plenty: Screening American Patriotism from German Émigré Perspectives before and after 9/11 by Frank Mehring

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Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature by Daniel Stein

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Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, Postcolonialism and Hybridity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Olfa Gandouz

“…Contemporary black citizens have achieved their American dreams of collecting lucre, but they are still grappling between keeping faithful to their African heritage and cultural repertoire or adopting the Western way of life and distance themselves from their roots. …”
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Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies by Thomas Halper and Douglas Muzzio

“…Subsequent white underclass movies followed this pattern, but more recently the American Dream has reasserted itself in popular underclass films, sounding a more positive note.…”
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Skinner Sweet, American Vampire by James J. Donahue

“…Reborn as a vampire during the American west of the 1880s, Skinner Sweet embodies an American identity defined by the myth of the west and the American Dream it gave birth to. As an outlaw both in the eyes of the law as well as in the eyes of the older, European clans, Skinner embodies the spirit of revolution against tradition that has become one of the cornerstones of American identity associated with American frontier of rugged individualism. …”
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"Mouth !" : voix et lieux du pouvoir dans Norma Rae de Martin Ritt (1979) by Corinne Oster

“…Hollywood, indeed, seems to only depict the working class as a setting one aspires to leave, and the pattern frequently found in these films is that of a shift from poverty to a spectacular achievement of the American dream. In many of these films, the way out—or up—for women is more often marriage than a job. …”
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Russian Bishop in Gilded Age America by V. V. Pechatnov, V. O. Pechatnov

“…Bishop Nickolay’s impressions of the United States constitute a revealing case study in how image of America as a constituent “the other”, the juxtaposition of the “Russian Idea” and the “American Dream” fitted into the Russian mentality.…”
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