1st Edition
The Everyday in Visual Culture Slices of Lives
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 understanding of the everyday by interweaving new thematic connections. It brings together debates around the analysis of the everyday in visual culture more broadly and explores the creation of innovative technological methods for comparative approaches to the study of the everyday, such as film databases, as well as the celebration of the everyday in museums. The volume is organized around four key themes. It explores the slices of everyday lives found in Visual Culture (Part I), Museums (Part II), the City (Part III) and the Home (Part IV). The book explores the growing area of the analysis of everyday life through visual culture both broadly and in depth.
By building interdisciplinary connections, this book is ideal for the emerging community of scholars and students stemming from Visual Culture, Film and Media Studies, Architecture Studies and practice, Museum Studies, and scholars of Sociology and Anthropology as well as offering fresh insights into cutting-edge tools and practices for the rapidly growing field of Digital Humanities.
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.
