Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home.: In  Home in Hollywood  Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as  a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space.

Conn Holohan

Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home. In Home in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space.

Conn Holohan

Huston Film School

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Original language	English (Ireland)
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012
Event	European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012 - Duration: 16 Jul 2012 → …

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Conference	European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012
Period	16/07/12 → …

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Holohan, C. (2012). Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home. In Home in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space.. Paper presented at European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012.

Holohan, Conn. / Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home. In Home in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space. Paper presented at European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012.

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Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home. In Home in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space. / Holohan, Conn.
2012. Paper presented at European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012.

Research output: Contribution to conference (Published) › Paper

Holohan C. Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meiers Home. In Home in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen argues that home functions as a symbolic fiction that makes one s actual place of habitation bearable . Ursula Meier s 2008 film Home insightfully explores the operations of this fiction, including its gendered nature, and reveals how these fantasies underpin the functioning of cinematic melodrama. It could be argued that a tension between the stability of home and the lure of mobility lies at the heart of all cinema, and this tension is given visual and narrative expression in the fragile homespace that Home s protagonists construct on the edge of a motorway. By refusing the motorway s insistence on movement, they assert their own subjectively meaningful sense of place over an ever-encroaching utilitarian space.. 2012. Paper presented at European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool . 2012.