The Cinema of the Swimming Pool

Contents: Christopher Brown/Pam Hirsch: Introduction: The Cinema of the Swimming Pool - Chris O'Rourke: The Municipal Plunge: Silent Cinema and the Social Life of Swimming Pools - Sheri Chinen Biesen: Cinematic Comedy and the Swimming Pool: Gender, Class, Coming of Age and Sexual Identity from The Philadelphia Story (1940) to Legally Blonde (2001) - Alex Naylor: 'The Anatomy of Atavism': American Urban Modernity, Gothic Trauma and Haunted Spaces in Cat People (1942) - Edward Saunders: From Stadium to Street: Generations and Gentrification in Berlin Pool Scenes - Axel Andersson: The Artifice of Modernity: Alienation by the Pool Side in the Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni - Christopher Brown: The Pools of The Swimmer (1968): Exurbia, Topography, Decay - François Penz: Atmosphère d' Eau Sauvage : Reflections on La Piscine (1969) - Pam Hirsch: A Dangerous Age: Deep End (1970) - Rose Hepworth: Staging Embarrassment in The Last Picture Show (1971) and Morvern Callar (2002) - Monika Keska: Filming the Splash: David Hockney's Swimming Pools on Film - Clara Garavelli: The Swimming Pool as a Site of Subversion during the Spanish Transition: The Case of Pepito piscina (1978) - Matilda Mroz: The Aesthetics of Overflow: Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983) in Duration - Micah Trippe: Urban Guerilla Playfare, or Skating through Empty Cinematic Pools in Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) - Sophie Mayer: Gutta cavat lapidem : The Sonorous Politics of Lucrecia Martel's Swimming Pools - Emma Wilson: 'The sea nymphs tested this miracle': Water Lilies (2007) and the Origin of Coral - Piotr Cieplak: Swimming in Post-apartheid Cape Town: Sea Point Days (2009) - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns: Cartographies of Desire: Swimming Pools and the Queer Gaze.