Jules O'Dwyer is Teaching Associate in Film Studies and French at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema (Minnesota, 2025).
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1. I Can't Sleep 1 2. Labor, Leisure, and Visual Pleasure 21 3. Lost in Space 47 4. Love Hotel 66 5. Chelsea Ghosts 89 Acknowledgments 101 Notes 103 List of Figures 113 Index 115
Hotels ingeniously charts the trajectories of sight and site in the cinematic hotel, that place where the illicit transpires and fantasies are projected. From early silent shorts to the Chelsea Hotel, from Claire Denis to Atom Egoyan to Chantal Akerman, O'Dwyer shows how films and hotels have mutually constituted one another across a shared history. This slim volume offers a new way to imagine both cinema and its spaces.---B. Ruby Rich, author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut