From the reading, in early times, Modern architecture deterred people. It was viewed as stern cold designs that shouldn’t appear in household design. But be used in office settings. Traditional housing in movie looks more warm and close to people. In contrast, modern housing built with more steel and white regular materials, looks more cold and not comfy to live in. So, people didn’t accept using modern designs in earlier times. Another thing to mention is there were stereotypes regarding housing as created in films, which means image of different types of housing and residents in it differs. For example,

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Joseph Rosa’s article, which was published in 2000, suggested that the modernist buildings in the movies are usually connected with some ‘illicit and unsavory behaviors’ like murder or adultery. After 20 years, modernist works are more linked with technology and conceptualization, thus are more likely to be presented in Sci-fi movies or Marvel movies, e.g., the house of Iron man. However, the trend in 2000 still has some influence in today’s movie settings. In a very popular Hollywood movie – The Invisible Man (2020), directed by Leigh Whannel, the story is happened in a very modernist house with all-glass wall,

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“Apartment is more than setting.” In fact, many times residence could be the most important element that shapes the narrative. In a microscopic way, just like anyone of us displaying our truest and most comfortable selves in our homes, apartment plot is the best way to illustrate a person’s character and thoughts: how an officer worker return to his humble flat and reflect his depressing and suffocating daily life; or a secret agent having harmonious and warm family time in her ordinary cozy house, which establishes a sharp contrast and boundary between different scenarios. In a macroscopic way, apartment reflects

Continue readingReading Response: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

After learning the business proposal genre last semester from CAES, understanding and absorbing the “genre” concept again provides me with a familiar but unique feeling, just like Edward Relph’s saying, “vicarious insideness”. I’m like an outsider to see how apartment plot act as genre as narratives and domestic urbanism (porousness, encounter, improvisation, simultaneity, and play). Meanwhile, I’m also getting conscious of how it works for production and spectator in the global context. This reading makes me understand apartment plot as a genre from both an insider and outsider’s view. Likewise, the film situates us both as insiders and outsiders, where

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