Screen Interiors : From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias /: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pat Kirkham, Sarah A. Lichtman.
• Editors: Kirkham, Pat; Lichtman, Sarah A
• Contents: List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA)Section One: House and Home: Space, Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation1. Comfort and the Domestic Interior in Soviet Fiction Cinema of the 1920s, Eleanor Rees (University of College London, UK)2. Furnishing I Love Lucy (1951-57), Marilyn Cohen (Parsons School of Design, USA)3. From the Country House Film to the House in the Country Film: Space, Class, and Generation, Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow, UK)4. Space, Interiors, and 1980s Hollywood Teen Films, Patrick O'Neill (Kingston University, UK)Section Two: The Curated Home5. Mobilizing Material Culture: Collecting and Interiority in Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece (1974), Shax Reigler (Architectural Digest, USA)6. From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Minimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s, Timothy M. Rohan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)7. 'Home furnishing takes a cue from Paris, too': The Fashion Professional at Work and Home in Postwar Hollywood Films, c. 1957–1961, Rebecca C. Tuite (Bard Graduate Center, USA)Section Three: Framing Interiors and Interiorities: Inside and Out8. Framing Interiorities: Interiors, Objects, and Hidden Desires in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960), Imma Forino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)9. Frames, Veils, and Windows: Modern Cinematic Set Design in Early Russian Films by Evgenii Bauer, Maria Korolkova (University of Greenwich, UK)Section Four: Screening Queerness: Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ambiguity, Authorit, and Power10. Interiors, Class, Perversity, and Ambiguity in The Servant (1963), Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK)11. In Plain View: London Commercial Interiors as Queer spaces in Three 1960s British Films: Victim (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Killing of Sister George (1968), Andrew Stephenson (University of East London, UK)12. Queer Interiors: Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1992), Adam Vaughan (University of Southampton, UK)Section Five: Horror and Homicide13. The Horror of the Homicidal Floor: Destabilized Elements of Interior Architecture, Alexandra Brown (Monash University, Australia) and Kirsty Volz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)14. Designed to Destroy: Action Film Interiors and the Construction of Killscapes, Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium)Section Six: Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors15. Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past, Present, and Future, in Serenity's Domestic Spaceship Interior, Sorcha O'Brien (Kingston University, UK)16. Cosmic Heterotopia: Banality and Disjunction in the Interiors of Passengers (2016), Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University, UK) Author BiographiesIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Subjects: Interior design, decor & style guides; Film theory & criticism; Film production: technical & background skills; Design -- Essays; Design -- History & Criticism; Architecture -- Interior Design -- General; History of art & design styles: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350150591; 1350150592
• Related ISBNs: 9781350150584
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