Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif
Although film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines – and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, 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.
Adopting this innovative two-fold approach that couples representation and dispositif, the home is studied as an architecture, as the place that embodies, defines and perpetuates the family history, as the milieu of gender and generational struggle, as well as the first site where manifestations of power unfold. All chapters contribute to explore, unpack the complexities and expand on the richness encapsulated in the notion of domesticity and dwelling in its fascinating relation to moving images.

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Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif
Although film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines – and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, 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.
Adopting this innovative two-fold approach that couples representation and dispositif, the home is studied as an architecture, as the place that embodies, defines and perpetuates the family history, as the milieu of gender and generational struggle, as well as the first site where manifestations of power unfold. All chapters contribute to explore, unpack the complexities and expand on the richness encapsulated in the notion of domesticity and dwelling in its fascinating relation to moving images.

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Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif

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Although film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines – and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, 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.
Adopting this innovative two-fold approach that couples representation and dispositif, the home is studied as an architecture, as the place that embodies, defines and perpetuates the family history, as the milieu of gender and generational struggle, as well as the first site where manifestations of power unfold. All chapters contribute to explore, unpack the complexities and expand on the richness encapsulated in the notion of domesticity and dwelling in its fascinating relation to moving images.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474428927
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 05/26/2020
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stefano Baschiera is Professor of Film Studies at Queen’s UniversityBelfast. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De Rosa

Chapter One: Architectures of Ubiquity: The Colonial Revival in Film and Television, by John David Rhodes

Chapter Two: No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity, and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs, by Merrill Schleier

Chapter Three: Resist, Redefine, Appropriate: Negotiating the Domestic Space in Contemporary Female Biopics, by Victoria Pastor González

Chapter Four: Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’ Carol, by Anna Backman Rogers

Chapter Five: A Home on the Road in Claire Denis’ Vendredi Soir, by Maud Ceuterick

Chapter Six: Acoustic Ectoplasm and the Loss of Home, by Beth Carroll

Chapter Seven: Our House Now: Flat and Reversible Home Spaces in Post-War Film and Television, by Adrian Martin

Chapter Eight: From Myth to Reality: Images of Domestic Space in Post-Soviet Baltic Films, by Lukas Brašiškis and Nerijus Milerius

Chapter Nine: No | Home | Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-House, by Laura Rascaroli

Chapter 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 Baschiera

Chapter Eleven: Dwelling the Open: Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema, by Miriam De Rosa

Chapter Twelve: What Is Cult When It’s At Home?: Reframing Cult Cinema in Relation to Domestic Space, by Iain Robert Smith

Chapter Thirteen: High Fructose Cinema and The Movie Industrial Complex: Radicalizing The Technology of Representation in a Domestic Kind of Way, by Bryan Konefsky

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Professor Pamela Wojcik

Film and Domestic Space offers a robust investigation of the myriad relations between film and domestic space. With attention to the different kinds of domestic spaces represented across various global cinemas, the volume considers the central place of home in the cinema, and of the cinema in the home.

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