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Calibre collision signal hill ca1/6/2023 What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features essays by an eclectic, international range of film researchers. The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. Introduction: The Cinema of the Swimming Pool ġ The Municipal Plunge: Silent Cinema and the Social Life of Swimming Pools Ģ Cinematic Comedy and the Swimming Pool: Gender, Class, Coming of Age and Sexual Identity from The Philadelphia Story (1940) to Legally Blonde (2001) ģ ‘The Anatomy of Atavism’: American Urban Modernity, Gothic Trauma and Haunted Spaces in Cat People (1942) Ĥ From Stadium to Street: Generations and Gentrification in Berlin Pool Scenes ĥ The Artifice of Modernity: Alienation by the Pool Side in the Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni Ħ The Pools of The Swimmer (1968): Exurbia, Topography, Decay ħ Atmosphère d’Eau Sauvage: Reflections on La Piscine (1969) ĩ Staging Embarrassment in The Last Picture Show (1971) and Morvern Callar (2002) ġ0 Filming the Splash: David Hockney’s Swimming Pools on Film ġ1 The Swimming Pool as a Site of Subversion during the Spanish Transition: The Case of Pepito piscina (1978) ġ2 The Aesthetics of Overflow: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983) in Duration ġ3 Urban Guerilla Playfare, or Skating through Empty Cinematic Pools in Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) ġ4 Gutta cavat lapidem: The Sonorous Politics of Lucrecia Martel’s Swimming Pools ġ5 ‘The sea nymphs tested this miracle’: Water Lilies (2007) and the Origin of Coral ġ6 Swimming in Post-apartheid Cape Town: Sea Point Days (2009) ġ7 Cartographies of Desire: Swimming Pools and the Queer Gaze
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