2 No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on the Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Contributors 1
8. 1 Architectures of Ubiquity: The Colonial Revival in Film and Television 16
9. 2 No Down Payment: Whiteness, Japanese American Masculinity and Architectural Space in the Cinematic Suburbs 37
10. 3 Resist, Redefine, Appropriate: Negotiating the Domestic Space in Contemporary Female Biopics 56
11. 4 Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’s Carol 72
12. 5 A Home on the Road in Claire Denis’s Vendredi soir 89
13. 6 Acoustic Ectoplasm and the Loss of Home 106
14. 7 Our House Now: Flat and Reversible Home Spaces in Post-war Film and Television 118
15. 8 From Myth to Reality: Images of Domestic Space in Post-Soviet Baltic Films 134
16. 9 No Home Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-house 154
17. 10 At Home with the Nouvelle Vague: Apartment Plots and Domestic Urbanism in Godard’s Une femme est une femme and Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 171
18. 11 Dwelling the Open: Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema 188
19. 12 What Is Cult When It’s At Home? Reframing Cult Cinema in Relation to Domestic Space 210
20. 13 High-fructose Cinema and the Movie Industrial Complex: Radicalising the Technology of Representation in a Domestic Kind of Way 226
21. Index 237