The Everyday in Visual Culture

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Foreword: A Loop Introduction PART I: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN VISUAL CULTURE 1. Early film and the construction of everyday life on screen 2. Televising the quotidian: BBC Arena's The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982) 3. Everyday practices and lived spaces of refugee children on YouTube 4. The arts of noticing (toward an experimental archive of everyday life) PART II: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN MUSEUMS 5. The Museum of Everyday Life 6. The Museum of Ordinary People 7. Everyday life in a heritage village: film as a process of research and engagement 8. Mapping narrative and everyday life in the museum PART III: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN THE CITY 9. Imagining the present 10. Contingencies of the everyday: screen representations of Tokyo in 1958 11. "Made in Hong Kong": the (re)production of publicness in the cinematic urban topography of contemporary Hong Kong PART IV: SLICES OF EVERYDAY LIVES IN THE HOME 12. CineMuseSpace: a cinematic exploration of the minor magic of everyday life 13. Indian cinema as a database for socio-energy behaviour in chawls 14. Domestic moods: mood catchers and makers