Film and Domestic Space

Architectures, Representations, Dispositif

Stefano Baschiera, Miriam De Rosa

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781474428941
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on the Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Architectures of Ubiquity: The Colonial Revival in Film and Television
• 2 No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs
• 3 Resist, Redefine, Appropriate: Negotiating the Domestic Space in Contemporary Female Biopics
• 4 Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’s Carol
• 5. A Home on the Road in Claire Denis’s Vendredi soir
• 6 Acoustic Ectoplasm and the Loss of Home
• 7 Our House Now: Flat and Reversible Home Spaces in Post-war Film and Television
• 8 From Myth to Reality: Images of Domestic Space in Post-Soviet Baltic Films
• 9 No | Home | Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-house
• 10 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
• 11 Dwelling the Open: Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema
• 12 What Is Cult When It’s At Home? Reframing Cult Cinema in Relation to Domestic Space
• 13 High-fructose Cinema and the Movie Industrial Complex: Radicalising the Technology of Representation in a Domestic Kind of Way
• Index