Spaces of the Cinematic Home
This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film. Rather than simply examining the representation of the house as national symbol, auteur trait, or in terms of genre, contributors study various rooms in the domestic sphere from an assortment of time periods and from a diversity of national cinemasfrom interior spaces in ancient Rome to the Chinese kitchen, from the animated house to the metaphor of the armchair in film noir.
Eleanor Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Course Leader for Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Stella Hockenhull is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Fran Pheasant-Kelly is MA Course Leader and Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
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Behind the Screen Door
Edited by Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull, and Fran Pheasant-Kelly
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Spaces of the cinematic home : behind the screen door / edited by Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-Kelly.
pages cm. (Routledge advances in film studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Home in motion pictures. 2. Domestic space in motion pictures. I. Andrews, Eleanor, 1953- editor. II. Hockenhull, Stella, editor. III. Pheasant-Kelly, Frances, 1960- editor.
PN1995.9.H54S63 2015
791.43'6552dc23 2015008637
ISBN: 978-1-138-79165-7 (hbk)
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