The Hotel
Occupied Space
Seiten
2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-1094-1 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-1094-1 (ISBN)
The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining how it manifests in art, photography, and film as well as its uses during wartime and as a sanctuary for displaced people, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.
The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.
As a site of occupancy, the hotel has provided continued creative inspiration for artists from Monet and Hopper, to genre filmmakers like Hitchcock and Sofia Coppola. While the rich symbolic importance of the hotel means that the visual arts and cinema are especially fruitful, the hotel’s varied structural purposes, as well as its historical and political uses, also provide ample ground for new and timely discussion. In addition to inspiring painters, photographers, and filmmakers, the hotel has played an important role during wartime, and more recently as a site of accommodation for displaced people, whether they be detainees or refugees seeking sanctuary. Shedding light on the diverse ways that the hotel functions as a structure, Robert A. Davidson argues that the hotel is both a fundamental modern space and a constantly adaptable structure, dependent on the circumstances in which it appears and plays a part.
The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.
As a site of occupancy, the hotel has provided continued creative inspiration for artists from Monet and Hopper, to genre filmmakers like Hitchcock and Sofia Coppola. While the rich symbolic importance of the hotel means that the visual arts and cinema are especially fruitful, the hotel’s varied structural purposes, as well as its historical and political uses, also provide ample ground for new and timely discussion. In addition to inspiring painters, photographers, and filmmakers, the hotel has played an important role during wartime, and more recently as a site of accommodation for displaced people, whether they be detainees or refugees seeking sanctuary. Shedding light on the diverse ways that the hotel functions as a structure, Robert A. Davidson argues that the hotel is both a fundamental modern space and a constantly adaptable structure, dependent on the circumstances in which it appears and plays a part.
Robert Davidson is an associate professor of Spanish and Catalan at the University of Toronto, and the author of Jazz Age Barcelona, also published by University of Toronto Press.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Overlooked Space
Part I: The Realm of Imagination
Chapter 1: The Pictorial Hotel
Chapter 2: The Cinematic Hotel
Part II: The Built Environment
Chapter 3: The Wartime Hotel
Chapter 4: The Displacement Hotel
Conclusion: The Hotel Attraction
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 175 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4426-1094-8 / 1442610948 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4426-1094-1 / 9781442610941 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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