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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.