Moving pictures/stopping places
Subtitle: hotels and motels on film
By: edited by David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel.
Contributors: Clarke, David B., 1964-; Pfannhauser, Valerie Crawford, 1965-; Doel, Marcus A.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780739128558
Subjects: Hotels in motion pictures; Motels in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Checking in / David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel; title: Revisiting the grand hotel (and its place in the cultural economy of Fascist Italy) / James Hay; title: Floating hotels : cruise holidays and amateur film-making in the inter-war period / Heather Norris Nicholson; title: Vacancies : hotels, reception desks, and identity in American cinema, 1929-1964 / Jann Matlock; title: The Swiss hotel film / Roland-Francois Lack; title: Cinematic topographies in time-space : Wim Wenders' hotels / Stan Jones; title: The decay of fiction and the poetics of pastness / Asbjørn Grønstad; title: "Now, where was I?" : memories, motels, and male hysteria / Stuart Aitken; title: "Just an anonymous room" : cinematic hotels and motels as mnemonic purgatories / Katherine Lawrie; title: No sympathy for the devil or lobby music : spaces of disjunction in Barton Fink, The shining and Muzak / Greg Hainge; title: Parallel hotel worlds / Yvette Blackwood; title: No quarter(s), no camel(s), no exit(s) : Motel Cactus and the low heterotopias of Seoul / David Scott Diffrient; title: Off the highway : some notes on stopping places in cinema / Rob Lapsley; title: The real of the screen : Atom Egoyan's speaking parts / Maria Walsh; title: Departure : the 21st century hotel-your media/home aay from home / James Hay.