Moving Pictures/Stopping Places

Hotels and Motels on Film
Herausgeber: Clarke, David B.; Doel, Marcus A.; Crawford Pfannhauser, Valerie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hotels and motels play a leading role in a wide variety of films. This volume brings together a range of outstanding explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780739128558
• ISBN-10: 0739128558
• Artikelnr.: 26184343

Autorenporträt

David B. Clarke is chair of human geography at Swansea University, Wales, UK. Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser is an independent film scholar in Vienna, Austria. Marcus A. Doel is a research chair of human geography at Swansea University, Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Checking In
Chapter 2 Revisiting the Grand Hotel (and Its Place in the Cultural Economy
of Fascist Italy)
Chapter 3 Floating Hotels: Cruise Holidays and Amateur Film-making in the
Inter-War Period
Chapter 4 Vacancies: Hotels, Reception Desks, and Identity in American
Cinema, 1929-1964
Chapter 5 The Swiss Hotel Film
Chapter 6 Cinematic Topographies in Time-Space: Wim Wenders' Hotels
Chapter 7 The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness
Chapter 8 'Now, Where Was I?': Memories, Motels, and Male Hysteria
Chapter 9 'Just an Anonymous Room': Cinematic Hotels and Motels as Mnemonic
Purgatories
Chapter 10 No Sympathy for the Devil or Lobby Music: Spaces of Disjunction
in Barton Fink and the The Shining and Muzak
Chapter 11 Parallel Hotel Worlds
Chapter 12 No Quarter(s), No Camel(s), No Exit(s): Motel Cactus and the Low
Heterotopias of Seoul
Chapter 13 Off the Highway: Some Notes on Stopping Places in Cinema
Chapter 14 The Real of the Screen: Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts
Chapter 15 Departure: The 21st Century Hotel: Your Media/Home Away from
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