1st Edition

The Everyday in Visual Culture Slices of Lives

Edited By François Penz, Janina Schupp Copyright 2022
252 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our understanding of everyday life in homes and cities around the globe. Investigating the multiple facets of the everyday, this interdisciplinary collection generates a new awareness of everyday lives across cultures and challenges our traditional... Read more

Foreword: A Loop

Yung Ho Chang

Introduction

François Penz and Janina Schupp

PART I: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN VISUAL CULTURE

1. Early film and the construction of everyday life on screen

Ian Christie

2. Televising the quotidian: BBC Arena’s The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982)

Michael Hrebeniak

3. Everyday practices and lived spaces of refugee children on YouTube

Gul Kacmaz Erk and Isıl Baysan Serim

4. The arts of noticing (toward an experimental archive of everyday life)

Ben Highmore

PART II: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN MUSEUMS

5. The museum of everyday life

Clare Dolan

6. The museum of ordinary people

Lucy Malone

7. Everyday life in a heritage village: film as a process of research and engagement

Mark Thomas and Suzanne MacLeod

8. Mapping narrative and everyday life in the museum

Tom Duncan

PART III: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN THE CITY

9. Imagining the present

Julian Lewis

10. Contingencies of the everyday: screen representations of Tokyo in 1958

Alastair Phillips

11. "Made in Hong Kong": the (re)production of publicness in the cinematic urban topography of contemporary Hong Kong

Zhuozhang Li

PART IV: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN THE HOME

12. CineMuseSpace: a cinematic exploration of the minor magic of everyday life

François Penz, Janina Schupp, Maureen Thomas and Matthew Flintham

13. Indian cinema as a database for socio-energy behaviour in chawls

Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Minna Sunikka-Blank, Ronita Bardhan and Janina Schupp

14. Domestic moods: mood catchers and makers

Felicity Atekpe

Biography

François Penz is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Architecture and a fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. Following his monograph, Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture (Routledge 2018), he is currently working on a new book, The 100 Films That All Architects Should See (Routledge).

Janina Schupp is the SOUTHWORKS Career Development Fellow in Digital Humanities at Jesus College, University of Oxford and an Affiliated Lecturer in Architecture and Moving Images at the University of Cambridge. She is also a documentary film producer and held fellowships at the Library of Congress, Camargo Foundation, and Nanjing University.