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The Apartment Complex - Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures (Hardcover)
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The Apartment Complex - Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures (Hardcover)
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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, examining films made both
within and beyond the Hollywood studios. The contributors consider
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 identify productive
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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