The Apartment Complex by Pamela Robertson Wojcik - 9781478001423

The Apartment ComplexUrban Living and Global Screen Cultures\nAuthor(s): Pamela Robertson Wojcik\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478001423, 978-1478001423\nSynopsis\nFrom the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment [tel] to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole [tel], the apartment in films and television series is often more than just a setting: it can motivate or shape the narrative in key ways. Such works belong to a critical genre identified by Pamela Robertson Wojcik as the apartment plot, which comprises specific thematic, visual, and narrative conventions that explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities. In The Apartment Complex a diverse group of international scholars discuss the apartment plot in a global context,examiningfilms made both within and beyond the Hollywood studios. Thk