The Apartment Complex

Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures
Herausgeber: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson

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Produktbeschreibung

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975, also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001089
• ISBN-10: 1478001089
• Artikelnr.: 49666086

Autorenporträt

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 
1
1. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era
Cinematic Penthouse Plot / Merrill Schleier  21
2. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots / Steven
Cohan  44
3. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical / Joe
McElhaney   65
4. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot / Michael DeAngelis 
84
5. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080
Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose  105
6. Home's Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments / Veronica
Fitzpatrick  126
7. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot / Lee Wallace 
145
8. "We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate": The Wire, Urban
Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream / Paula J.
Massood  168
Bibliography  187
Contributors  195
Index  197