Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index
Checking in / David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, and Marcus A. Doel -- Revisiting the grand hotel (and its place in the cultural economy of Fascist Italy) / James Hay -- Floating hotels : cruise holidays and amateur film-making in the inter-war period / Heather Norris Nicholson -- Vacancies : hotels, reception desks, and identity in American cinema, 1929-1964 / Jann Matlock -- The Swiss hotel film / Roland-François Lack -- Cinematic topographies in time-space : Wim Wenders' hotels / Stan Jones -- The decay of fiction and the poetics of pastness / Asbjørn Grønstad -- 'Now, where was I?' : memories, motels, and male hysteria / Stuart Aitken -- 'Just an anonymous room' : cinematic hotels and motels as mnemonic purgatories / Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven -- No sympathy for the devil, or, lobby music : spaces of disjunction in Barton Fink, The shining and Muzak / Greg Hainge -- Parallel hotel worlds / Yvette Blackwood -- No quarter(s), no camel(s), no exit(s) : Motel Cactus and the low heterotopias of Seoul / David Scott Diffrient -- Off the highway : some notes on stopping places in cinema / Rob Lapsley -- The real of the screen : Atom Egoyan's Speaking parts / Maria Walsh -- Departures : the 21st century hotel--your media/home aay from home / James Hay
