Description: Apartment Complex : Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures, Hardcover by Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (EDT), ISBN 1478001089, ISBN-13 9781478001089, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 more than just a setting: it can motivate or shape the narrative in key ways. Such works belong to a critical genre identified by Pamela Robertson Wojcik as the apartment plot, which comprises specific thematic, visual, and narrative conventions that explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities. In The Apartment Complex a diverse group of international scholars discuss the apartment plot in a global context,examiningfilms made both within and beyond the Hollywood studios. The contributorsconsider the apartment plot's intersections with film noir, horror, comedy, and the musical, addressing how different national or historical contexts modify the apartment plot and how the genre's framework allows us to rethink the work of auteurs and identifyproductive connections and tensions between otherwise disparate texts. Contributors. Steven Cohan, Michael DeAngelis, Veronica Fitzpatrick, Annamarie Jagose, Paula J. Massood, Joe McElhaney, Merrill Schleier, Lee Wallace, Pamela Robertson Wojcik
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Book Title: Apartment Complex : Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: Apartment Complex : Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Television / History & Criticism, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
