Spectacle of property : the house in American film /
John David Rhodes.
- 2017
- xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the house as medium -- Cinema's short-term tenancy: a materialist theory of film spectatorship -- Wrong life: bungalow aesthetics in and against Hollywood -- All too easy: the modernist house and effortless appropriation -- Between the past and the present: nostalgia and the cinema of stick and shingle style architecture -- Coda. from porch to attic: condemned to property in New Orleans.