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Reading Response: Pamela Wojcik

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Wojcik has has developed his idea of the apartment plot as genre by identifying it as narrative and temporality of the events. For instance, moving in and out of the apartment created the contradiction of the sense of dwelling and constant change of one’s place. He even regard apartment plot as intertext which enables us to see affiliations across traditional genres like how abandoned mansion could create the atmosphere of horror and mystery, allow us to be reminiscent of histories of ghosts. I am sure you must have watched Joker, which also employed the apartment space to portray the plight

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Reading Response: Pamela Wojcik

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It is an interesting brand new perspective for me to know that the apartment plot in film is a genre.I used to observe the apartment setting in the films as the preference of lifestyle for the characters only.However,based on this reading,the apartment literally has its own and significant contribution to the film plot.‘Apartment is more than setting,but motivates or shapes the narrative in some key way.’This sentence reminds me of the movie review that I watched a few days ago about Parasite’.The director successfully made use of the living spaces of two extreme classes to show the contrast and huge

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[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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Honestly speaking, I had quite a lot of trouble reading this article, not only because it is actually a philosophical work but also because it has way more advanced vocabulary than I can understand. I even could not help skipping a few paragraphs in the end. However, I have had a grasp of the idea of the distinction and connection between space and place, which are similar to but different from de Certeau’s ideas in his another article, Walking in the City. What’s more, after the tutorial this week, I have had a rough structure of maps and boundaries in

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[Reading Response: Pamela Wojcik]

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Wojcik’s reading covers the concept of “Apartment Plot as a Genre”, explaining an apartment is not just a setting of the film, but also explaining the narrative. Moreover, apartment plot also locates in domestic urbanism. It shows the character’s identity like class, ethnicity and economic status. The second concept is “apartment plot as an intertext”, where apartment acts as a support of the storyline. The last concept on contextualizing the apartment plot mentions a quote that film gives the “viewers a dwelling view”, giving them a “touristic view”. I think it is related to the concept of “non-place”. Some architectural

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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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Spaces have stories. The author started with examining the relationship and differences between spaces and places. Space is a practices place. It is produced by human activities taking place within it. Stories transform places into spaces or spaces into place. It found spaces. Where stories are disappearing, there is a loss of space. Just like human always treat places where daily activities occur as spaces while they categorise the others as places. I always curious in the untold “space” behind the scenes in stories and want to explore the unknown. Furthermore, the reading identifies the idea and connection of maps

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Reading Response-MICHEL DE CERTEAU

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De Certeau’s exploration of two spatial descriptions, the maps and tour, and delimitation has expanded my perception of “spatial experience”. Maps and tours, one has a symbolic language of space while the other, is anthropological. Comparing to maps, tours would be more vivid as in a results of simply human experience and sentimental interaction with/ with in space. In a form of  story telling, it has a function of sharing. Hence, there is a predominate nature, and “postulates” limits, possibilities and obligation. Stories can authorise and would given context and significants to the space and time when it take place,

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[READING RESPONSE: MICHEL DE CERTEAU]

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From the essay, Michel de Certeau stated that space is practiced place. The writer mentioned the definition of space and place. Through the act of transformation, such as adding buildings and roads in the space, space can become place. A place shows what people can do in it and the stories of one’s life. For boundaries, the meaning of it is ambiguous and unstable, it can be found through reviewing the past and thinking of the present situation. I believe that the meaning of boundaries in a place is different for everyone. A place gives us memories, the experience in

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[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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  From the essay, Michel de Certeau tries to define space and places. In short, space is practiced place, a place is an instantaneous configuration of positions, which is a stable definition. Space considers vectors of direction, velocity and time variables, which is a combination of different elements. Stories can carry out labor transforming places into spaces and vice versa. Space is formed when a walker has a memory of a place and gives a special story to it. Stories can also control the relationships between places and spaces. The essay then discusses the distinction between maps and tour, I

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[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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From the essay “Spatial Stories”, written by De Certeau, I would like to share some idea of spaces and places. First, this essay gives readers many examples to explain these two words. I agree that a place is an instantaneous configuration of positions because place should have some similar elements inside. On the other hand, spaces have its function and space is a practiced place. About the part of tours and maps, people always use a map when they cannot find the location. But if you are asking people how to go to that place, they may say “to the

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[Reading Response: Pamela Wojcik]

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  ‘What makes the apartment complex?’ written by Wojcik shows an interesting perspective on as she perceives apartment as an independent genre, rather than only serving as a media as a plot. She emphasizes the role of apartment performed beyond the ‘setting’. Following to her analysis, it is further explores as a media to draw out the character’s identity; ‘gender, race, ethnicity and class’, which she mentioned in the reading. For instance, a room of newly married women may be portrayed with couple items, absence of child goods or overall bright tone of furniture to convey new and fresh image.

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