Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nFIGURES\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nINTRODUCING SCREEN INTERIORS: FROM COUNTRY HOUSES TO COSMIC HETEROTOPIAS\n	Set design, art direction, production design: terminology and screen credits\n	Writings related to set design, art direction, and production design on screen\n	Groupings, themes, and issues\n	House and Home: Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation\n	The Curated Home\n	Framing Interiors and Interiorities\n	Screening Queerness: Class, Ambiguity, and Power\n	Horror and Homicide\n	Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors\n	Notes\n	Bibliography\nPART 1 HOUSE AND HOME: COMFORT, CLASS, GENDER, AND GENERATION\n	CHAPTER 1 COMFORT AND THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR IN SOVIET FICTION CINEMA OF THE 1920s\n		Material excess: Bed and Sofa\n		Material intelligence: The Girl with a Hatbox\n		Material and memory: Fragment of an Empire\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 2 FURNISHING I LOVE LUCY (1951–7)\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 3 FROM THE COUNTRY HOUSE FILM TO THE HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY FILM: SPACE, CLASS, AND GENERATION\n		The Innocents\n		Country\n		Archipelago\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 4 SPACE, INTERIORS, AND 1980s HOLLYWOOD TEEN FILMS\n		The home, the bedroom, the high school, and the mall\n		The parental home\n		The teenage bedroom\n		The high school\n		The shopping mall\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nPART 2 THE CURATED HOME\n	CHAPTER 5 MOBILIZING MATERIAL CULTURE: COLLECTING AND INTERIORITY IN LUCHINO VISCONTI’S CONVERSATION PIECE (1974)\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 6 FROM SEX TO NARCISSISM: UNDERSTANDING MINIMALIST INTERIORS IN NEW YORK FILMS OF THE 1970s\n		The neo-liberal city and Minimalism\n		John and Mary\n		Stardust Memories\n		Acknowledgments\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 7 “HOME FURNISHING TAKES A CUE FROM PARIS, TOO”: THE FASHION PROFESSIONAL AT WORK AND HOME IN POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD FILMS, c. 1957–61\n		Glamour across design boundaries\n		Fashioning self and space\n		Color and coordination\n		Interior chic: “Home furnishing takes a cue from Paris, too”46\n		Modern women and modern design\n		Fashioning the curated space\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nPART 3 FRAMING INTERIORS AND INTERIORITIES\n	CHAPTER 8 FRAMING INTERIORITIES: INTERIORS, OBJECTS, AND HIDDEN DESIRES IN BILLY WILDER’S THE APARTMENT (1960)\n		Plot synopsis\n		Fantasy, desires, sets, inner lives, and “framing”\n		The objet petit a(utre) in Hollywood\n		Contexts: the US corporation\n		Frame 1. The office interior: the telephone and the Rolodex card file\n		Frame 2. The bachelor apartment: the record player and television\n		Frame 3. The elevator: the flower\n		Frame 4. The cubicle and the apartment’s bathroom: two mirrors\n		Frame 5. The kitchen: the tennis racquet\n		Frame 6. The personnel director’s office: the two keys\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 9 FRAMES, VEILS, AND WINDOWS: MODERN CINEMATIC SET DESIGN IN EARLY RUSSIAN FILMS BY EVGENII BAUER\n		New approaches: the cinematic interior\n		Evgenii Bauer and set design\n		Sumerki zhenskoi dushi (Twilight of a Woman’s Soul, 1913)\n		Ditia bol’shogo goroda (Child of the Big City, 1914)\n		Mania\n		Viktor and “tangomania”\n		Vibration of the soul\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nPART 4 SCREENING QUEERNESS: CLASS, AMBIGUITY, AND POWER\n	CHAPTER 10 INTERIORS, CLASS, PERVERSITY, AND AMBIGUITY IN THE SERVANT  (1963)\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 11 IN PLAIN VIEW: LONDON COMMERCIAL  INTERIORS AS QUEER SPACES IN THREE 1960s BRITISH FILMS: VICTIM  (1961),THE LEATHER BOYS (1964), AND THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (1968)\n		Coda\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 12 QUEER INTERIORS: DEREK JARMAN’S CARAVAGGIO (1986) AND EDWARD II (1992)\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nPART 5 HORROR AND HOMICIDE\n	CHAPTER 13 THE HORROR OF THE HOMICIDAL FLOOR: DESTABILIZED ELEMENTS OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE\n		Unnamed women and unknowable worlds: Under the Skin and mother!\n		Approaches to horror in architecture and interiors\n		“It keeps them down there and me up here”: basements, stores, and doors in floors\n		Mother’s mansion: the explosive, resetting floor\n		The unnamed woman’s cottage: the processing kill-room floor\n		Destabilized domesticity\n		(Un)limiting conditions\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 14 DESIGNED TO DESTROY: ACTION FILM INTERIORS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KILLSCAPES\n		Action film and space\n		Constructing killscapes\n		Maps and menaces\n		Reading the room\n		Crimes of passion\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nPART 6 LIVING IN OUTER SPACE: SCI-FI INTERIORS\n	CHAPTER 15 VISIONS OF HOME: NOSTALGIA AND MOBILITY, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, IN SERENITY’S DOMESTIC SPACESHIP INTERIOR\n		Firefly (2002) and Serenity (2005): plot synopses\n		The future of nostalgia\n		Science fiction and the Western\n		Science fiction mobility: American submarines, trailers, and spaceships\n		Domesticity: Westerns and California Modern\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\n	CHAPTER 16 COSMIC HETEROTOPIA: BANALITY AND DISJUNCTION IN THE INTERIORS OF PASSENGERS (2016)\n		The sublime versus the banal\n		Disjunction and plurality\n		A cosmic heterotopia\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Bibliography\nCONTRIBUTORS\nINDEX