Overview

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.

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Author:   David Smith
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781442610941

ISBN 10:   1442610948
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Overlooked Space Part I: The Realm of Imagination Chapter 1: The Pictorial Hotel Chapter 2: The Cinematic Hotel Part II: The Built Environment Chapter 3: The Wartime Hotel Chapter 4: The Displacement Hotel Conclusion: The Hotel Attraction Notes Works Cited Index

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Its assemblage of sources unique to Davidson's perspective and its original articulation of the concept of occupancy makes The Hotel: Occupied Space a topical study that, while broad in scope, is refreshingly clear and accessible to anyone interested in our evolving relationship with the built environment in the age of global conduct. -- Matthew D'Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University * <em>Between</em> * Through his provocative series of close readings, Davidson uses the hotel form as a way to register the significance of incursions of state power into the contractually arranged relationship to space that defines the modern hotel. -- Jordan J. Howie, University of Toronto * <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em> *

Its assemblage of sources unique to Davidson's perspective and its original articulation of the concept of occupancy makes The Hotel: Occupied Space a topical study that, while broad in scope, is refreshingly clear and accessible to anyone interested in our evolving relationship with the built environment in the age of global conduct. -- Matthew D'Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University * <em>Between</em> *

Author Information

Robert Davidson is an associate professor of Spanish and Catalan at the University of Toronto, and the author of Jazz Age Barcelona, also published by University of Toronto Press.

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