| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index. |
| Contents |
Checking in / David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel -- Revisiting the grand hotel (and its place in the cultural economy of Fascist Italy) / James Hay -- Floating hotels : cruise holidays and amateur film-making in the inter-war period / Heather Norris Nicholson -- Vacancies : hotels, reception desks, and identity in American cinema, 1929-1964 / Jann Matlock -- The Swiss hotel film / Roland-François Lack -- Cinematic topographies in time-space : Wim Wenders' hotels / Stan Jones -- The decay of fiction and the poetics of pastness / Asbjørn Grønstad -- 'Now, where was I?' : memories, motels, and male hysteria / Stuart Aitken -- 'Just an anonymous room' : cinematic hotels and motels as mnemonic purgatories / Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven -- No sympathy for the devil, or, lobby music : spaces of disjunction in Barton Fink, The shining and Muzak / Greg Hainge -- Parallel hotel worlds / Yvette Blackwood -- No quarter(s), no camel(s), no exit(s) : Motel Cactus and the low heterotopias of Seoul / David Scott Diffrient -- Off the highway : some notes on stopping places in cinema / Rob Lapsley -- The real of the screen : Atom Egoyan's Speaking parts / Maria Walsh -- Departures : the 21st century hotel--your media/home aay from home / James Hay. |
| Summary |
Hotels and motels play a leading role in a wide variety of films. This volume brings together a range of outstanding explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Hotels in motion pictures.
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Motels in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- Reference.
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Hotels in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01903511
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Motels in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01903970
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| Added Author |
Clarke, David B., 1964-
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Pfannhauser, Valerie Crawford, 1965-
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Doel, Marcus A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moving pictures/stopping places. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739128558 (DLC) 2009011547 (OCoLC)303086991 |
| ISBN |
9780739132272 (electronic bk.) |
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073913227X (electronic bk.) |
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