Film and Domestic Space

Stefano Baschiera is Professor of Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the co-editor of Italian Horror Cinema (2016, EUP), Film and Domestic Space (2020, EUP) and World Cinema on Demand (2022, Bloomsbury). Miriam De Rosa is Research Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University. She researches and publishes on film theories, experimental cinema, artists’ moving images and screen media arts. She is the author of Cinema e Postmedia (2013), the editor of Post-what? Post-when? Thinking moving images beyond the postcinema condition (with Vinzenz Hediger, 2016) and of the forthcoming Gesture (2019). De Rosa also works as an independent film and exhibition curator.

• Introduction by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaChapter One: Architectures of Ubiquity: The Colonial Revival in Film and Television, by John David RhodesChapter Two: No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity, and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs, by Merrill SchleierChapter Three: Resist, Redefine, Appropriate: Negotiating the Domestic Space in Contemporary Female Biopics, by Victoria Pastor GonzálezChapter Four: Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’ Carol, by Anna Backman RogersChapter Five: A Home on the Road in Claire Denis’ Vendredi Soir, by Maud CeuterickChapter Six: Acoustic Ectoplasm and the Loss of Home, by Beth CarrollChapter Seven: Our House Now: Flat and Reversible Home Spaces in Post-War Film and Television, by Adrian MartinChapter Eight: From Myth to Reality: Images of Domestic Space in Post-Soviet Baltic Films, by Lukas Brašiškis and Nerijus MileriusChapter Nine: No | Home | Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-House, by Laura RascaroliChapter Ten: At Home with the Nouvelle Vague: Apartment Plots and Domestic Urbanism in Godard’s Une femme est une femme and Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7, by Stefano BaschieraChapter Eleven: Dwelling the Open: Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema, by Miriam De RosaChapter Twelve: What Is Cult When It’s At Home?: Reframing Cult Cinema in Relation to Domestic Space, by Iain Robert SmithChapter Thirteen: High Fructose Cinema and The Movie Industrial Complex: Radicalizing The Technology of Representation in a Domestic Kind of Way, by Bryan Konefsky

Film and Domestic Space is a very well-curated and thought-provoking collection which brings together varied conceptual and methodological approaches to domestic space. It is a welcome addition to scholarship on space and place in cinema and an extremely useful resource for both research and teaching.