1st Edition
The Dissolution of Place Architecture, Identity, and the Body
By Shelton Waldrep
Copyright 2013
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate... Read more
Contents: Preface: letter from Portland, Maine; Introduction; The architectonics of post/modernist space; The global theme park: Disney in the world; The architecture of time: postmodern casinos in Las Vegas; In Her Majesty’s secret closet: Bond’s body; Reverse empire: architecture in Native American casinos; Philip Johnson and the architecture of the body; Bodies in space: architecture and the films of Stanley Kubrick; Coda: virtual communities; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Shelton Waldrep is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA.
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2013 ’Brimming with fresh and insightful analyses of contemporary architecture, urban planning, literature, and film, Shelton Waldrep’s The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity and the Body brilliantly fulfills the promise of truly interdisciplinary cultural studies ... Turning a deep theoretical sophistication, a keen observational sensibility, and a razor-sharp intellect onto a breathtaking array of objects ... The Dissolution of Place transforms in significant ways our understanding and experiences of the spaces and places we must navigate in an ever more mediated post-contemporary present.’ Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida, USA '... those with an acquaintance with the canon of modernist and postmodernist literature will find this an insightful and rewarding read.' LSE Review of Books
