The American Roadside in Emigre Literature, Film, and Photography

Chapter One: Introduction By the Way: The Roadside as Other Space.- Chapter Two: "Stationary Trivialities": Life on the Margins in Vladimir Nabokov''s Lolita (1955).- Chapter Three: "Roadside Eye": Accidents and Epiphanies in Robert Frank''s The Americans (1958).- Chapter Four: "We''re all in our private traps": Alfred Hitchcock''s Psycho (1960) and the Decline of the American Motel.- Chapter Five: Roadside Chronicles: Wim Wenders'' Paris, Texas (1984).- Chapter Six: Conclusion: America Revisited.