Hotels (Cutaways)

O'Dwyer, Jules

Fordham University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 144 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781531509644
• DDC分類 791.43

Full Description

From Marienbad to the Bates Motel, cinematic hotels are more than a mere backdrop to a film's action. They actively scaffold the formal, aesthetic, and narrative possibilities of cinema. This book takes a journey through spaces of temporary dwelling—hotels, inns, and motels—to delve into the dynamics and contradictions that structure modern life.
Along the way, O'Dwyer considers questions of plot and eroticism, labor and globalization, and the ethics and economics of hospitality. Drawing on a broad array of films from European art cinema to experimental adult media, and placing cinema into dialogue with film theory and media history, Hotels explores both how and why the hotel has such a strong purchase on the cinematic imaginary.

Contents

1. I Can't Sleep 1
2. Labor, Leisure, and Visual Pleasure 21
3. Lost in Space 47
4. Love Hotel 66
5. Chelsea Ghosts 89
Acknowledgments 101
Notes 103
List of Figures 113
Index 115