Overview
- Draws insightful and relevant connections between the architecture of the house and the architecture of film
- Brings fresh critical perspective to a cinematic trope through close analysis of cinema’s formal techniques
- Constitutes an original contribution to the widening body of literature on the home in cinema
Part of the book series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television (CRFT)
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This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains imbued with depth, metaphor, and expressivity.
The book studies the films through the lens of four filmmaking processes in particular: découpage, mise-en-scène, sound and editing. Close analysis reveals how filmmakers use these cinematic ‘building blocks’ to shape onscreen worlds charged with emotion and animated by the warp and weft of psychic life.
Images of home abound in the cinema, and women frequently find themselves at the core of both structures. Drawing on recent spatial and feminist enquiry, the book reviews the idea of home as a fixed and stable location and illustrates how the art of cinema is well equipped to explore home as an imaginary as well as a material realm.With its emphasis on film practice as a route into critical reflection, this book will be of interest to filmmakers, film theorists and those who simply want to understand more about how films work.
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Book Title: Women and Home in Cinema
Book Subtitle: Form, Feeling, Practice
Authors: Louise Radinger Field
Series Title: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40033-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40032-2Published: 16 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40035-3Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40033-9Published: 14 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6133
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Close Reading, Film and TV Production, Media and Communication