Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film
Edited by David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel
We hope that this – just released – book will be of interest. It contains an
excellent line-up of contributors. Full details are on the Rowman and Littlefield
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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 have focused on the movement
implied by road movies and similar genres, the outstanding contributions to
this volume extend the recent engagement with space and place in film
studies, providing a series of fascinating explorations of the cultural
significance of stopping places, both on screen and off. Ranging from the
mythical elegance of the Grand Hotel, through the uncanny spaces of the
Bates motel, to Korean 'love motels,' the wealth of insights, from a variety of
theoretical perspectives, that this volume delivers is set to change our
understanding of the role played by stopping places in an increasingly fluid
world.
Checking In
David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel
1. Revisiting the Grand Hotel (and Its Place in the Cultural Economy of Fascist
Italy)
James Hay
2. Floating Hotels: Cruise Holidays and Amateur Film-making in the Inter-War
Period
Heather Norris Nicholson
3. Vacancies: Hotels, Reception Desks, and Identity in American
Cinema, 1929–1964
Jann Matlock
4. The Swiss Hotel Film
Roland-Francois Lack
5. Cinematic Topographies in Time-Space: Wim Wenders' Hotels
Stan Jones
6. The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness
Asborn Gronstad
7. 'Now, Where Was I?': Memories, Motels, and Male Hysteria
Stuart Aitken
8. 'Just an Anonymous Room': Cinematic Hotels and Motels as
Mnemonic Purgatories
Katherine Lawrie
9. No Sympathy for the Devil or Lobby Music: Spaces of
Disjunction in Barton Fink and the The Shining and Muzak
Greg Hainge
10. Parallel Hotel Worlds
Yvette Blackwood
11. No Quarter(s), No Camel(s), No Exit(s): Motel Cactus and the
Low Heterotopias of Seoul
David Scott Diffrient
12. Off the Highway: Some Notes on Stopping Places in Cinema
Rob Lapsley
13. The Real of the Screen: Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts
Maria Walsh
Departure: The 21st Century Hotel: Your Media/Home Away from Home
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