Apartment Complex

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik  11. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era Cinematic Penthouse Plot / Merrill Schleier  212. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots / Steven Cohan  443. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical / Joe McElhaney   654. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot / Michael DeAngelis  845. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose  1056. Home's Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments / Veronica Fitzpatrick  1267. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot / Lee Wallace  1458. "We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate": The Wire, Urban Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream / Paula J. Massood  168Bibliography  187Contributors  195Index  197

"[The Apartment Complex is] a concise, remarkably wide-ranging book on an unusual topic. ...  Stark and satisfying. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." - W. W. Dixon (Choice) "The Apartment Complex builds upon the premise of Wojcik’s earlier book that wedded cinema studies to urban studies. . . Its strength lies in how the individual essayists apply Wojcik’s thesis- developed for post–World War II American films- to the more recent output of international films and television." - Carrie Rickey (Film Quarterly) "Wojcik has produced a book unrestricted by the limits of genre, history, nation, or industry figure, and illuminates important visual and thematic connections between films in global screen culture." - Anna Maria Sapountzi (Open Screens)