Apartment Complex

Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole (1998), the apartment in films and television series is often more than just a setting: it can motivate or shape the narrative in key ways. Such works belong to a critical genre identified by Pamela Robertson Wojcik as the apartment plot, which comprises specific thematic, visual, and narrative conventions that explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities. In The Apartment Complex a diverse group of international scholars discuss the apartment plot in a global context, examining films made both within and beyond the Hollywood studios. The contributors consider the apartment plot's intersections with film noir, horror, comedy, and the musical, addressing how different national or historical contexts modify the apartment plot and how the genre's framework allows us to rethink the work of auteurs and identify productive connections and tensions between otherwise disparate texts.Contributors. Steven Cohan, Michael DeAngelis, Veronica Fitzpatrick, Annamarie Jagose, Paula J. Massood, Joe McElhaney, Merrill Schleier, Lee Wallace, Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-19
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478001423

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Film inom Kultur
Television inom Kultur

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)