Moving Pictures/Stopping Places
Hotels and Motels on Film
Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'_hotels, motels, and the like_that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas. Whereas previous film theorists ha…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Crawford Pfannhauser, Valerie (Hrsg.) / Doel, Marcus A (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-2855-8
- EAN: 9780739128558
- Produktnummer: 4574696
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 402 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.8 cm 768 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 768
Über den Autor
David B. Clarke is chair of human geography at Swansea University, Wales, UK. Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser is an independent film scholar in Vienna, Austria. Marcus A. Doel is a research chair of human geography at Swansea University, Wales, UK.
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