Unhomely Cinema: Home and Place in Global Cinema (Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies,New Perspectives on World Cinema) - Hardcover

Avery, Dwayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783083026 ISBN 13: 9781783083022

Publisher: Anthem Press, 2014

Synopsis

Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies. Providing analyses of a variety of film genres – from Michel Gondry’s comedy “Be Kind Rewind” to Laurent Cantet’s eerie suspense thriller “Time Out” – “Unhomely Cinema” presents an engaging discussion of some of the most pertinent social and cultural issues involved in the question of “making home” in contemporary societies.

About this title

Book Description:

A novel reworking of Freud’s idea of the uncanny and its application to the study of cinematic domesticity.

About the Author:

Dwayne Avery is a postdoctoral fellow at York University, Toronto. He received his PhD from McGill University, Montreal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783083026
• ISBN 13: 9781783083022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148