{"product_id":"screen-interiors-9781350150584","title":"Screen Interiors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePat Kirkham\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Centre, USA, and Associate Research Fellow at the Cinema and Television Research History Centre, De Montfort University, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah A. Lichtman\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Design History at Parsons School of Design, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging and highly readable collection is the most comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the subject available, but it reads like a lively conversation among friends. From broad cultural themes to minute details, the essays included here answer myriad questions about how interiors, props, and visual cues shape our reactions to on-screen stories and images. An indispensable resource for anyone who has ever wondered how movies and TV shows are made and why they matter so much to us, this book is both a remarkable achievement and a delight to read. -- Alice Friedman, Glace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, USA\u003cbr\u003eInnovative and exciting—fascinating topics, new research, wide-ranging approaches, and fresh interpretations, marshalled with sophisticated editorial expertise.\u003ci\u003e Screen Interiors\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed cross-disciplinary intervention that stakes out new ground in studies of film, television, and design. -- Catherine Whalen, Associate Professor, American Material Culture Studies, Bard Graduate Center, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScreen Interiors\u003c\/i\u003e is a milestone in the literature on production design for film and television. Exploring how moving-image interiors reveal the inner lives of protagonists, the book offers multiple perspectives on a wide range of genres, countries, and time periods and investigates social themes such as gender, class, and sexuality. The book contributes insightful perspectives on popular films and their makers, while shedding light on productions and people. Equally valuable is the book’s concise history of production design and its historiography. -- Donald Albrecht, Independent Curator, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, \u003ci\u003ePat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection One: House and Home: Space, Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation \u003c\/b\u003e1. Comfort and the Domestic Interior in Soviet Fiction Cinema of the 1920s, \u003ci\u003eEleanor Rees (University of College London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Furnishing \u003ci\u003eI Love Lucy \u003c\/i\u003e(1951-57), \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Cohen (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParsons School of Design, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. From the Country House Film to the House in the Country Film: Space, Class, and Generation, \u003ci\u003eChristine Geraghty (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Glasgow, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Space, Interiors, and 1980s Hollywood Teen Films,\u003ci\u003e Patrick O'Neill (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKingston University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Two: The Curated Home\u003c\/b\u003e 5. Mobilizing Material Culture: Collecting and Interiority in Luchino Visconti’s \u003ci\u003eConversation Piece \u003c\/i\u003e(1974), \u003ci\u003eShax Reigler (Architectural Digest, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Minimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eTimothy M. Rohan (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. “Home furnishing takes a cue from Paris, too”: The Fashion Professional at Work and Home in Postwar Hollywood Films, c. 1957–1961, \u003ci\u003eRebecca C. Tuite (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBard Graduate Center, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Three: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFraming Interiors and Interiorities: Inside and Out\u003c\/b\u003e 8. Framing Interiorities: Interiors, Objects, and Hidden Desires in Billy Wilder’s \u003ci\u003eThe Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eImma Forino (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitecnico di Milano, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Frames, Veils, and Windows: Modern Cinematic Set Design in Early Russian Films by Evgenii Bauer, \u003ci\u003eMaria Korolkova \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Greenwich, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Four: Screening Queerness: Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ambiguity, Authorit, and Power\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Interiors, Class, Perversity, and Ambiguity in \u003ci\u003eThe Servant\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eBarry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. In Plain View: London Commercial Interiors as Queer spaces in Three 1960s British Films: \u003ci\u003eVictim\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Leather Boys\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), and \u003ci\u003eThe Killing of Sister George\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eAndrew Stephenson (University of East London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Queer Interiors: Derek Jarman’s \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eEdward II\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eAdam Vaughan (University of Southampton, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Five: Horror and Homicide\u003c\/b\u003e 13. The Horror of the Homicidal Floor: Destabilized Elements of Interior Architecture, \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Brown (Monash University, Australia) and Kirsty Volz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Designed to Destroy: Action Film Interiors and the Construction of Killscapes, \u003ci\u003eLennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Six: Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors\u003c\/b\u003e 15. Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past, Present, and Future, in \u003ci\u003eSerenity\u003c\/i\u003e’s Domestic Spaceship Interior, \u003ci\u003eSorcha O’Brien (Kingston University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Cosmic Heterotopia: Banality and Disjunction in the Interiors of \u003ci\u003ePassengers\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eErsi Ioannidou (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKingston University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e) \u003c\/i\u003e  Author Biographies Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407515296087,"sku":"9781350150584","price":115.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350150584.jpg?v=1730499631","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screen-interiors-9781350150584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}