Rhodes, John David, 1969-

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.

9781517903695 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781517903701 (softcover : alk. paper)


Dwellings in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.--United States

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