{"product_id":"9781452955995","title":"Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of our time at the movies is spent in other people’s homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to address the question of the ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic architecture. Arguing that in cinema we pay to occupy spaces we cannot occupy, John David Rhodes explores how the house in cinema both structures and criticizes fantasies of property and ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhodes tells the story of the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in looking at private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties it produces. He begins by laying out a theory of film spectatorship that proposes the concept of the “spectator-tenant,” with reference to films such as \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e. The book continues with three chapters that are each occupied with a different architectural style and the films that make use of it: the bungalow, the modernist house, and the shingle style house. Rhodes considers a variety of canonical films rarely analyzed side by side, such as \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to \u003ci\u003eGrey Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMeet Me in St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e. Among the other films discussed are \u003ci\u003eMeshes of the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMildred Pierce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Star Is Born\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e A Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together film history, film theory, and architectural history as no book has to date, \u003ci\u003eSpectacle of Property\u003c\/i\u003e marks a new milestone in examining cinema’s relationship to realism while leaving us vastly more informed about, if less at home inside, the houses we occupy at the movies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143273529584,"sku":"9781452955995","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452955995_p0.jpg?v=1763848829","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452955995","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}