The Hotel : : Occupied Space / / Robert A. Davidson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Davidson, Robert A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustration -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Overlooked Space -- PART ONE. THE REALM OF IMAGINATION -- Chapter One. The Pictorial Hotel -- Chapter Two. The Cinematic Hotel -- PART TWO. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter Three. The Wartime Hotel -- Chapter Four. The Displacement Hotel -- CONCLUSION: The Hotel Attraction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index