{"product_id":"the-apartment-complex-9781478001089","title":"The Apartment Complex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe Apartment Complex\u003c\/i\u003e offer global perspectives on films from a diverse set of genres—from film noir and comedy to horror and musicals—that use apartment living to explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Apartment Complex \u003c\/i\u003eis] a concise, remarkably wide-ranging book on an unusual topic. ...  Stark and satisfying. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.\" -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Apartment Complex\u003c\/i\u003e builds upon the premise of Wojcik’s earlier book that wedded cinema studies to urban studies. . . Its strength lies in how the individual essayists apply Wojcik’s thesis— developed for post–World War II American films— to the more recent output of international films and television.\" -- Carrie Rickey * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Wojcik has produced a book unrestricted by the limits of genre, history, nation, or industry figure, and illuminates important visual and thematic connections between films in global screen culture.\" -- Anna Maria Sapountzi * Open Screens *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? \/ Pamela Robertson Wojcik  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era Cinematic Penthouse Plot \/ Merrill Schleier  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots \/ Steven Cohan  44\u003cbr\u003e 3. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical \/ Joe McElhaney   65\u003cbr\u003e 4. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot \/ Michael DeAngelis  84\u003cbr\u003e 5. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles \/ Annamarie Jagose  105\u003cbr\u003e 6. Home's Invasion: \u003ci\u003eRepulsion\u003c\/i\u003e and the Horror of Apartments \/ Veronica Fitzpatrick  126\u003cbr\u003e 7. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot \/ Lee Wallace  145\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate\": \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, Urban Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream \/ Paula J. Massood  168\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  187\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  195\u003cbr\u003e Index  197","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408970031447,"sku":"9781478001089","price":86.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001089.jpg?v=1730504909","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-apartment-complex-9781478001089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}