TY - JOUR
T1 - All That is Solid
T2 - Producing the Home-Space in John Stahl's Imitation of Life
AU - Holohan, Conn
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Through a detailed textual analysis of John Stahls Imitation of Life, this article explores the manner in which 1930s domestic melodramas visualise the home as a space apart from the public sphere of economic exchange. Drawing on phenomenological understandings of cinematic space, the article argues that careful attention to framing and camera movement within Stahls film reveal the set of exclusions and displacements through which its image of home becomes possible, and enables us to more fully understand the spatial assumptions through which melodrama produces its moral universe.
AB - Through a detailed textual analysis of John Stahls Imitation of Life, this article explores the manner in which 1930s domestic melodramas visualise the home as a space apart from the public sphere of economic exchange. Drawing on phenomenological understandings of cinematic space, the article argues that careful attention to framing and camera movement within Stahls film reveal the set of exclusions and displacements through which its image of home becomes possible, and enables us to more fully understand the spatial assumptions through which melodrama produces its moral universe.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85042132520
U2 - 10.1080/10509208.2017.1409098
DO - 10.1080/10509208.2017.1409098
M3 - Article
SN - 1050-9208
VL - 35
SP - 246
EP - 271
JO - Quarterly Review of Film and Video
JF - Quarterly Review of Film and Video
IS - 3
ER -