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1 online resource (xxxi, 213 pages) |
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Volume -- Under Construction: A Brief Introduction to Housing Studies -- PART I The Theatrical Display of Domestic Spaces: Theatre, Photography and Life-Writing -- 1. Shakespearean Houses and Homes: Order and Escape, Limitation and Expansion -- 2. Sharing Space: Home and Its Boundaries in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Who Are You? -- 3. Interiorography in Words and Images: Cecil Beaton's Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease -- PART II Alternative Homes in Literary Prose |
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4. Habitat Fragmentation in the Modernist Imagination: Benjamin, Berger, Beckett, and Woolf -- 5. Shadows Haunting Shadows: Conceptualisation of a "Nocturnal Sanctum" in Anna Kavan's Sleep Has His House -- 6. Returning Home in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones -- PART III Inside Out: Windows and Homes in Experimental Poetry and Street Art -- 7. I Spy with My Little Eye: The Phenomenon of Window Watching in Urban Studies and Liberature -- 8. Graffiti Homes: Homelessness, Performativity, and Body Imagery in Contemporary Street Art |
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PART IV Looking at Houses: Homes in Graphic Narratives, Film and Television -- 9. Passionate Pursuits of Perfection: Interior Design of the Self and of "the Real" in Posy Simmonds's Gemma Bovery and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic -- 10. Connections on the Ballroom Floor: Representations of Houses in the American Ball Culture in Popular Films and TV Shows -- 11. Property Porn: The Commodification of Housing and Housing Desire in HGTV and the Fifty Shades Film Trilogy -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- List of Contributors |
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Dwellings in art.
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Dwellings in literature.
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Dwellings in motion pictures.
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Dwellings in art.
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Dwellings in literature.
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Dwellings in motion pictures.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Curyłło-Klag, I. (Izabela), editor.
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Kowal, Ewa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783846767313 |
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384676731X |
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