Dwellers that do not Belong, Dwellings that no Longer Exist
Staging Hotel Interiors and (Unhomely) Domesticity in Experimental Documentary Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12877609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kornelia Boczkowska (0000-0003-0875-9209, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Home Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-6315 • E-ISSN: 1751-7427 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17406315.2020.1757382 |
| OpenAlex | W3094082294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Commonly known as non-places or stopping places, hotels create their own sense of domesticity and seclusion, simultaneously invoking an uncanny screen presence due to their non-contradictory nature. Likewise, this article builds on the theory of an architectural uncanny and weirdness to analyze how Chantal Akerman’s Hôtel Monterey and Pat O’Neill’s The Decay of Fiction delineate interior spaces to evoke an (un)homely domesticity and (un)belonging human presence. In particular, to prioritize the hotel architecture, Akerman relies on a partial and fragmentary representation of interiors, whose larger picture is always beyond spectators’ vision, and O’Neill’s creates an engrossing tension between haptic visuality and optical perception, which gives rise to the fetishism of decay. Consequently, while Hôtel Monterey’s indoor architecture presents a spectacle of largely mute, impenetrable spaces with no or little human interaction, The Decay of Fiction’s domestic spaces form a permeable layer through which shadowy figures continuously enact their fictional roles
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Perception · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Spectacle · Uncanny · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Architecture
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The Skin of the Film
Surface
An Accented Cinema
Non-places
Touring Cultures
Cinema and the City in History and Theory
Spaces of Women’s Cinema
American Domesticity
Bordering on Fiction
At Home with the Missoni Family
Unruly Women and Their Crazy Houses
Halfway Down the Stairs
The Ghost of Grandeur
Poetry, language, thought
Documenting the Domestic
The New Mobilities Paradigm
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |