Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA)
Section One: House and Home: Space, Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation
1. Comfort and the Domestic Interior in Soviet Fiction Cinema of the 1920s, Eleanor Rees (University of College London, UK)
2. Furbanishing I Love Lucy (1951-57), Marilyn Cohen (Parsons School of Design, USA)
3. From the Country House Film to the House in the Country Film: Space, Class, and Generation, Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow, UK)
4. Space, Interiors, and 1980s Hollywood Teen Films, Patrick O'Neill (Kingston University, UK)
Section Two: The Curated Home
5. Mobilizing Material Culture: Collecting and Interiority in Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece (1974), Shax Reigler (Architectural Digest, USA)
6. From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Minimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s, Timothy M. Rohan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
7. “Home furbanishing takes a cue from Paris, too”: The Fashion Professional at Work and Home in Postwar Hollywood Films, c. 1957–1961, Rebecca C. Tuite (Bard Graduate Center, USA)
Section Three: Framing Interiors and Interiorities: Inside and Out
8. Framing Interiorities: Interiors, Objects, and Hidden Desires in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960), Imma Forino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
9. Frames, Veils, and Windows: Modern Cinematic Set Design in Early Russian Films by Evgenii Bauer, Maria Korolkova (University of Greenwich, UK)
Section Four: Screening Queerness: Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ambiguity, Authorit, and Power
10. Interiors, Class, Perversity, and Ambiguity in The Servant (1963), Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK)
11. In Plain View: London Commercial Interiors as Queer spaces in Three 1960s British Films: Victim (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Killing of Sister George (1968), Andrew Stephenson (University of East London, UK)
12. Queer Interiors: Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1992), Adam Vaughan (University of Southampton, UK)
Section Five: Horror and Homicide
13. The Horror of the Homicidal Floor: Destabilized Elements of Interior Architecture, Alexandra Brown (Monash University, Australia) and Kirsty Volz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
14. Designed to Destroy: Action Film Interiors and the Construction of Killscapes, Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium)
Section Six: Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors
15. Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past, Present, and Future, in Serenity's Domestic Spaceship Interior, Sorcha O'Brien (Kingston University, UK)
16. Cosmic Heterotopia: Banality and Disjunction in the Interiors of Passengers (2016), Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University, UK)
Author Biographies
Index