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The Apartment Complex : Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures /

From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C.C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's "The Hole" (1998), the apartment in films and television series is often mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what makes the apartment complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
  • Palaces of pleasure and deceit among the clouds: the depression-era cinematic penthouse plot / Merrill Schleier
  • From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's apartment plots / Steven Cohan
  • Alain Resnais, Tsai Ming-Liang, and the apartment plot musical / Joe McElhaney
  • Movement and stasis in Fassbinder's apartment plot / Michael DeAngelis
  • Housework, sex work: feminist ambivalence at 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose
  • Home's invasion: repulsion and the horror of apartments / Veronica Fitzpatrick
  • Reattachment theory: gay marriage and the apartment plot / Lee Wallace
  • "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.