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 cinemasfrom interior spaces in ancient Rome to the Chinese kitchen, from the animated house to the metaphor of the armchair inFilm Noir.
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| Introduction |
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1 Carl's Moving Castle: "Animated" Houses and the Renovation of Play in Up (2009) |
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2 Peas, Parsnips, and Patriotism: Images of the Garden in the Second World War |
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3 "King for a Day": Performance and Expression in the Cinematic Space of the Basement |
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4 Kim In The Sitting Room: The Function Of Domestic Space In The Construction Of Star Image |
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5 At Home With The Caesars: The Emperor Tiberius And The Ambiguity Of Place In Historical And Epic Films |
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6 The Dining Room: Authenticity, Immersion, And Reproduction? |
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7 A Drama Of Solitude: The Library As Cocoon In Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece |
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8 Reframing The Material And Imaginative Geographies Of The Home: Chinese Filmmaker Liu Jiayin's Oxhide II (2009) |
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9 Furnishing The Living Room In Film Noir: Disillusion And The Armchair |
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10 Whither Shall I Wander? Up And Down The Staircase In Film |
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11 Intimate Spaces, Extimate Subjects: The Bedroom In Horror Films |
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12 A Room Going Spare: Lodgers, Nannies, And Strangers In The House |
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13 Monstrous Men And Bathroom Mirrors: The Bathroom As Revelatory Space In American Cinema |
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14 Secrets, Memory, And Imagination: Psychic Space And The Cinematic Attic |
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| Bibliography |
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Eleanor Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Course Leader for Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Stella Hockenhull is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Fran Pheasant-Kelly is MA Course Leader and Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
