Film and Domestic Space

by Stefano Baschiera

Author	: Stefano Baschiera
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages	: 256
Release	: 2020-05-28
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1474428940

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Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis and Todd Haynes, Amos Gitai, Martin Ritt, John Ford, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine - this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.

Close Encounters

by Constance Penley

Author	: Constance Penley
Publisher	: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages	: 314
Release	: 1991
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 0816619123

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A collection of essays addresses the ways in which sexual roles are depicted in science fiction films and includes the complete text of Peter Wollen's film script for "Friendship's Death"

New Approaches to Cinematic Space

by Filipa Rosário

Author	: Filipa Rosário
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 399
Release	: 2018-12-12
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 042988785X

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New Approaches to Cinematic Space aims to discuss the process of creation of cinematic spaces through moving images and the subsequent interpretation of their purpose and meaning. Throughout seventeen chapters, this edited collection will attempt to identify and interpret the formal strategies used by different filmmakers to depict real or imaginary places and turn them into abstract, conceptual spaces. The contributors to this volume will specifically focus on a series of systems of representation that go beyond the mere visual reproduction of a given location to construct a network of meanings that ultimately shapes our spatial worldview.

Spaces of the Cinematic Home

by Eleanor Andrews

Author	: Eleanor Andrews
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 256
Release	: 2015-07-24
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 131764882X

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This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film. Rather than simply examining the representation of the house as national symbol, auteur trait, or in terms of genre, contributors study various rooms in the domestic sphere from an assortment of time periods and from a diversity of national cinemas—from interior spaces in ancient Rome to the Chinese kitchen, from the animated house to the metaphor of the armchair in film noir.

Welcome to the Dreamhouse

by Lynn Spigel

Author	: Lynn Spigel
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Total Pages	: 444
Release	: 2001-06
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 9780822326960

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DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div

Cultural Ideals of Home

by Deborah Chambers

Author	: Deborah Chambers
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 280
Release	: 2020-03-18
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1351793640

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Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven, managed as an investment, and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public, state, commercial, popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry, design, exhibitions, television, social media, home mobilities and migration, smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography, the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original, historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study, this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies, cultural history, media and communication studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, cultural geography and design studies.

Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain

by Professor Susan Larson

Author	: Professor Susan Larson
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 328
Release	: 2024-08-30
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1487529120

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Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home. It explores how the collective experience of domestic space has been shaped by government ideologues, technocrats, and artists as well as working- and middle-class Spaniards since the late nineteenth century. The book focuses on the social and cultural meanings of domestic space in ways that invite us to cross boundaries between private and public, the particular and the general, the local and the global, and to pay attention to the role of the cultural imagination in making a house into a home. Considering a wide variety of voices and perspectives that have resulted in new ideas about how to inhabit domestic space, Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to illuminate the cultural history of everyday life.

Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema

by Andrea Virginás

Author	: Andrea Virginás
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages	: 301
Release	: 2017-01-06
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 144386031X

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The “spatial”, the “bodily”, and the “memory turn” in the humanities and cultural studies are well-canonized developments. These features of our being in the world are fundamental in the medium of cinema, which is an art of spaces, bodies, and memories, increasingly so today when the analogue platform has been running parallel with the digitalized method of filmmaking. The three nodal concepts define the tripartite structure of this volume, composed of an overview study and twelve case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. The overarching questions of space representation and construction, bodies on screen, issues of national identification in a postcolonial framework, and cinema as a form of cultural memory are explored through the lens of specific national cinemas or contemporary Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Romanian films. In addition to investigating the cohesive forces that mark the postcommunist Eastern European region as a coherent cultural entity in its cinematic representations, the volume also stands as a witness to the importance of transnational approaches.

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

by David T. Fortin

Author	: David T. Fortin
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 251
Release	: 2016-12-05
Genre	: Architecture
ISBN	: 1351957465

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The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.