Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975, also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 1
1. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era Cinematic Penthouse Plot / Merrill Schleier 21
2. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots / Steven Cohan 44
3. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical / Joe McElhaney 65
4. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot / Michael DeAngelis 84
5. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose 105
6. Home's Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments / Veronica Fitzpatrick 126
7. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot / Lee Wallace 145
8. "We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate": The Wire, Urban Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream / Paula J. Massood 168
Bibliography 187
Contributors 195
Index 197
Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-0142-3
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Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-0108-9