Hotels - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531509651ISBN-10:1531509657UPC:9781531509651Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Film, Media Studies, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.00 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCS2CT71BQ
From Marienbad to the Bates Motel, cinematic hotels are more than a mere backdrop to a film's action. They actively scaffold the formal, aesthetic, and narrative possibilities of cinema. This book takes a journey through spaces of temporary dwelling--hotels, inns, and motels--to delve into the dynamics and contradictions that structure modern life.
Along the way, O'Dwyer considers questions of plot and eroticism, labor and globalization, and the ethics and economics of hospitality. Drawing on a broad array of films from European art cinema to experimental adult media, and placing cinema into dialogue with film theory and media history, Hotels explores both how and why the hotel has such a strong purchase on the cinematic imaginary.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531509651ISBN-10:1531509657UPC:9781531509651Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Film, Media Studies, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.00 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCS2CT71BQ
Jules O'Dwyer is Teaching Associate in Film Studies and French at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema (Minnesota, 2025).
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