SAD PEOPLE IN MODERNIST HOMES IN POPULAR FILMS VOLUME 2 PUBLICATION
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2019
This publication explores Hollywood's tendency towards housing unhappiness and melancholy inside some of its most beloved modernist abodes. Is modernism a prison for the depressed? From Colin Firth’s existential crisis in John Lautner’s 1949 Schaffer Residence (in Tom Ford's A Single Man), to investigations of a family in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm slowly falling into chaos in New Canaan – home of the Harvard Five’s domestic modernist experiments – the perceived sterility of the modern movement has frequently been used by the movies as an aesthetic shorthand for tragic protagonists.