Film and Domestic Space

Stefano Baschiera is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast. His work on European cinema, material culture, and film industries has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals including Film International, Bianco e Nero, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. With Russ Hunter is the co-editor of Italian Horror Cinema (2016).

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, DispositifEdited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaAlthough film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, Todd Haynes, Amos Gitai, Martin Ritt, John Ford, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine - this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.Adopting this innovative two-fold approach that couples representation and dispositif, the home is studied as an architecture, as the place that embodies, defines and perpetuates the family history, as the milieu of gender and generational struggle, as well as the first site where manifestations of power unfold. All chapters contribute to explore, unpack the complexities, and expand on the richness encapsulated in the notion of domesticity and dwelling in its fascinating relation to moving images.Stefano Baschiera is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast. Miriam De Rosa is Research Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, and an independent film and exhibition curator.

Introduction, Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De Rosa; Chapter One: Architectures of Ubiquity: The Colonial Revival in Film and Television, John David Rhodes; Chapter Two: No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity, and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs, Merrill Schleier; Chapter Three: Resist, Redefine, Appropriate: Negotiating the Domestic Space in Contemporary Female Biopics, Victoria Pastor González; Chapter Four: Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes' Carol, Anna Backman Rogers; Chapter Five: A Home on the Road in Claire Denis' Vendredi Soir, Maud Ceuterick; Chapter Six: Acoustic Ectoplasm and the Loss of Home, Beth Carroll; Chapter Seven: Our House Now: Flat and Reversible Home Spaces in Post-War Film and Television, Adrian Martin; Chapter Eight: From Myth to Reality: Images of Domestic Space in Post-Soviet Baltic Films, Lukas BraSiSkis and Nerijus Milerius; Chapter Nine: No | Home | Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-House, Laura Rascaroli; Chapter Ten: At Home with the Nouvelle Vague: Apartment Plots and Domestic Urbanism in Godard's Une femme est une femme and Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7, Stefano Baschiera; Chapter Eleven: Dwelling the Open: Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema, Miriam De Rosa; Chapter Twelve: What Is Cult When It's At Home?: Reframing Cult Cinema in Relation to Domestic Space, Iain Robert Smith; Chapter Thirteen: High Fructose Cinema and The Movie Industrial Complex: Radicalizing The Technology of Representation in a Domestic Kind of Way, Bryan Konefsky