Spaces of the Cinematic Home: Behind the Screen Door [Hardcover]

This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film. Rather than simply examining the representation of the house as national symbol, auteur trait, or in terms of genre, contributors study various rooms in the domestic sphere from an assortment of time periods and from a diversity of national cinemasfrom interior spaces in ancient Rome to the Chinese kitchen, from the animated house to the metaphor of the armchair in film noir.

Introduction Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly  1. Carls Moving Castle: Animated Houses and the Renovation of Childs Play in Up (2009) Christopher Holliday  2. Peas, Parsnips and Patriotism: Images of the Garden in the Second World War Stella Hockenhull  3. King for a Day : Performance and Expression in the Cinematic Space of the Basement  Scott Martin  4. Kim in the Sitting Room: The Function of Domestic Space in the Construction of Star Image Phil Davey  5. At Home with the Caesars: The Emperor Tiberius and the Ambiguity of Place in Historical and Epic Films Paul Brighton  6. The Dining Room: Authenticity, Immersion and Reproduction? Ann Eatwell  7. A Drama of Solitude: The Library as Cocoon in LuchinoViscontis Conversation Piece Pasquale Iannone  8. Reframing the Material and Imaginative Geographies of the Home: Chinese filmmaker Liu Jiayins Oxhide II (2009) Jean Amato  9. Furnishing the Living Room in FilƒC