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Spectacle of Property - The House in American Film (Paperback)
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Spectacle of Property - The House in American Film (Paperback)
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Much of our time at the movies is spent in other people’s homes.
Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of
Property is the first book to address the question of the
ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic
architecture. Arguing that in cinema we pay to occupy spaces we
cannot occupy, John David Rhodes explores how the house in cinema
both structures and criticizes fantasies of property and ownership.
Rhodes tells the story of the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we
take in looking at private property onscreen, analyzing the
security and ease the house promises along with the horrible
anxieties it produces. He begins by laying out a theory of film
spectatorship that proposes the concept of the
“spectator-tenant,” with reference to films such as Gone with
the Wind and The Magnificent Ambersons. The book continues with
three chapters that are each occupied with a different
architectural style and the films that make use of it: the
bungalow, the modernist house, and the shingle style house. Rhodes
considers a variety of canonical films rarely analyzed side by
side, such as Psycho in relation to Grey Gardens and Meet Me in St.
Louis. Among the other films discussed are Meshes of the Afternoon,
Mildred Pierce, A Star Is Born, Killer of Sheep, and A Single Man.
Bringing together film history, film theory, and architectural
history as no book has to date, Spectacle of Property marks a new
milestone in examining cinema’s relationship to realism while
leaving us vastly more informed about, if less at home inside, the
houses we occupy at the movies.
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