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Hotels by Jules O'Dwyer (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Author Jules O'Dwyer. They actively scaffold the formal, aesthetic, and narrative possibilities of cinema. Format Paperback.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-101531509657

ISBN-139781531509651

eBay Product ID (ePID)13070924826

Product Key Features

Book TitleHotels

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicMedia Studies, Criticism & Theory, Film / History & Criticism

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Performing Arts, Social Science

AuthorJules O'dwyer

Book SeriesCutaways Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.7 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Hotels ingeniously charts the trajectories of sight and site in the cinematic hotel, that place where the illicit transpires and fantasies are projected. From early silent shorts to the Chelsea Hotel, from Claire Denis to Atom Egoyan to Chantal Akerman, O'Dwyer shows how films and hotels have mutually constituted one another across a shared history. This slim volume offers a new way to imagine both cinema and its spaces." ---B. Ruby Rich, author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut, Hotels ingeniously charts the trajectories of sight and site in the cinematic hotel, that place where the illicit transpires and fantasies are projected. From early silent shorts to the Chelsea Hotel, from Claire Denis to Atom Egoyan to Chantal Akerman, O'Dwyer shows how films and hotels have mutually constituted one another across a shared history. This slim volume offers a new way to imagine both cinema and its spaces. ---B. Ruby Rich, author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

Dewey Decimal791.436559

Table Of Content1. 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

SynopsisFrom 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.