Spectacle of Property details the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in viewing private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties it produces. It 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.
Keywords: Film architecture housing property domestic theory history
Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781517903695 |
Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: September 2018 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.001.0001 |