Moving pictures/stopping places hotels and motels on film /

• Other Authors: Clarke, David B., 1964-, Pfannhauser, Valerie Crawford, 1965-, Doel, Marcus A.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.
• Subjects: Hotels in motion pictures.; Motels in motion pictures.; PERFORMING ARTS > Reference. > Film & Video; Electronic books.
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Hotels and motels play a leading role in a wide variety of films. This volume brings together a range of outstanding explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off.

Table of Contents:

• Checking in / David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel
• Revisiting the grand hotel (and its place in the cultural economy of Fascist Italy) / James Hay
• Floating hotels : cruise holidays and amateur film-making in the inter-war period / Heather Norris Nicholson
• Vacancies : hotels, reception desks, and identity in American cinema, 1929-1964 / Jann Matlock
• The Swiss hotel film / Roland-François Lack
• Cinematic topographies in time-space : Wim Wenders' hotels / Stan Jones
• The decay of fiction and the poetics of pastness / Asbjørn Grønstad
• 'Now, where was I?' : memories, motels, and male hysteria / Stuart Aitken
• 'Just an anonymous room' : cinematic hotels and motels as mnemonic purgatories / Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven
• No sympathy for the devil, or, lobby music : spaces of disjunction in Barton Fink, The shining and Muzak / Greg Hainge
• Parallel hotel worlds / Yvette Blackwood
• No quarter(s), no camel(s), no exit(s) : Motel Cactus and the low heterotopias of Seoul / David Scott Diffrient
• Off the highway : some notes on stopping places in cinema / Rob Lapsley
• The real of the screen : Atom Egoyan's Speaking parts / Maria Walsh
• Departures : the 21st century hotel
• your media/home aay from home / James Hay.