After reading Joseph Rosa Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s article, these are some of my understandings and feelings. Rosa’s article mentioned the modern and traditional styles of houses in the movies; Americans have never entirely accepted modern architecture as their home, and most Americans prefer the conventional home, whether in film creation or life. Also, there’s a big difference between living in apartments and a penthouse; people in penthouses live in the present, look to the future, and care little about the past. The article has shown that if people fall in love, get married, or have children, and they will choose

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Through the selected pages, it is using the department plot as a lens to look at the architecture and film. The occurrence and development of the department links to the process of urbanism. Filmmakers noticed this relationship and tried to present this kind of linkage by film and TV production. For example, the changing relationship between neighbors and the movement in racism drives the movement of urbanism. Through the way that apartments were presented in films, we could see some stereotype to this kind of modern architecture, and thus, see people’s altitude towards modern architecture in the 20th century. In

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In the mid-20th century, modern domestic architecture was considered more appropriate to be a workspace than a home, due to the fear of technological and scientific advances. Under these circumstances, Hollywood movies use modern style white-walled architectures to emphasize antagonists’ characteristics. Movie producers tried to connect their created villains to certain modern forms of architecture. For example, in the James Bond series, the master criminal was set in a house of ‘poured-in-place concrete’ in the middle of the Nevada desert. This technique of forming the concrete makes the architecture lose the sense of warmth and affection as a home, which

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At the end of 20th century, modern domestic architectures are always related to fear, evilness and other negative issues in films (Rosa 2000, 159-167).  By contrast, when modernism first appeared, people hold a much warmer attitude. This may related to the development of high technology and their influence on people. During second industrial revolution, when the concept of modernism was first promoted, life was flourished by those dramatic changes. Contact across the ocean, convenient trips around the world, cars became accessible for middle-class family. Modernism meant a better future. However, the cold war makes people be aware of how dangerous

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In this week’s reading, we learned that the modern architecture is often regarded as cold and more related to bad things such as crimes in the movies, while the traditional style of houses are more considered as warm and closer to people’s heart. For example, in the movie L.A. Confidential, the female character’s true bedroom is  decorated in traditional style, which shows that this is the way of decorations that could make her feel warm and safe while the other area decorated in more urban style is not what she values. However, this kind of stereo type is not always

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