“The Hotel in Film” Special Issue 23.1 (Winter 2025)

Guest Editor: Sean Redmond

Introduction

Washed in the Flotsam and Jetsam of Everyday Life: The Hotel in Film

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Articles

Desperately Seeking Satisfaction: Hotel Sex and the (Older) Single Girl in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

By Deborah Jermyn and Brenda Weber

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The Queer(ed) Hotel in Film

By Misha Kavka

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Patriarchal Confession: Foucault and the Singaporean Hotel in Eric Khoo’s In the Room

By Ian Dixon

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Architectures of Violence: The Fight Scenes of Hollywood’s Luxury Hotels

By Lindsay Steenberg and Lisa Coulthard

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“I Wish We Could Stay Here Forever…and Ever”: Trauma and Sentient Space in the Horror Hotel

By Melody Blackmore and Catherine Pugh

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Bedding down Precarity: John Smith’s Hotel Diaries

By Dirk de Bruyn

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Lonely Hotels and Motels

By Sean Redmond

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Reviews

Metaphysics and the Moving Image: Paradise Exposed

Reviewed by Steven DeLay

Metaphysics and the Moving Image: Paradise Exposed by Trevor Mowchun

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Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

Reviewed by Thomas Flight

Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick by John Bleasdale

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A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography in Documentary Film

Reviewed by Clayton Dillard

A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography in Documentary Film by Roger Hallas

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