MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu 6

1. MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu 6 MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

2. Houses, homes and housing environment are very important for movies, since houses, homes and housing environment are the start point of life cycle. Everyday life, family relation and special events like weddings, divorces, illnesses, murders, and fobies mostly related with housing environment. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

3. Characteristics of housing movies: • settings: real houses and housing environment. Famous houses, traditional houses, squatter houses. • themes: main subjects of house movies: family relations, romantic relations, fears, dream houses, new houses versus old houses, housing neighbours, • aesthetics: Starting from clasical, neo clasical, modern, post modern and futuristic approaches had been seen in housing movies. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

4. Different housing settlement types were used for the film story: Inner city settlements, Country settlements Suburban settlements Priphery settlements Gated community settlements Social and mass housing settlement Squatter settlements movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

5. Different housing types were used for the film story: Traditional houses Country houses Suburban houses Apartments - low rise and high rise Gated community houses Squatter houses movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

6. MODERN HOUSES and ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICAN MOVIES • In recent Hollywood movies, modern domestic architecture has become identified almost exclusively with characters who are evil, unstable, selfish, and obsessive. • Hollywood directors, producers thougth that American Public freightening from the signs of technological and scientific advance they saw in modern architecture . movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

7. The famous art directors of Hollywood like Cedric Gibbons prefered ART-DECO style in their movies for the housing architecture instead of MODERN style. • The 30’ s classical american movies show us that “a husband returns form the office to a happy, traditional home life with wife, children and sometimes, domestic settings” • On the contrary “urban appartments were reserved for youthful singles, the unusually wealth, easy women, and terminal bachelors”. Once this people get married even they left their modern quarters for more conventional accomodation. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

8. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces Examples of this type movies: -Reaching the Moon (1931) -The Women (1939) - It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

9. The Hollywood film makers thougth that “there was a significant differentiation between the characteristics of those living in appartments and those living in pent-houses” • The appartment dwellers was generally young, naive, ambitious, and unstable financial situation • The penthouse was reserved for the wealthy, older, well educated, and unsentimental. The penthouse dwellers lived in the present and looked toward the future with little concern for the past. Generaly a penthouse dweller was falling in love and relocating to a more traditional home. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

10. Examples of this type movies: • -Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931) • Dark Victory (1939) • Christmas in Connecticut (1945) movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

11. H.C. Potter’ s 1948 romantic comedy Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House based on association between traditional architecture and traditional happiness. • Looking to escape disturbing metropolis New York Jim and Muriel Blandings (Cary Grant and Myrna Loy) want to build their fantasy home in the suburbs of Connecticut. After a serious events the Blandings find the domestic happiness in the form of a large colonial house with a pitched roof. • On the contrary in King Widors,’ s 1949 “architectural melodrama” The Fountainhead we see a series of spectacular modern homes and appartments. In the end the architect wins, but it was not a real victory. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

12. In 1960 many modern style houses took part in the Hollywood movies. • John Lautner is one of the architect whose houses used for these movies. • John Lautner’ s futuristic 1960 Malin Residence (Chemosphere) a saucer-shape domicile based on a column over a steep slope. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

13. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces John Lautner’ s futuristic 1960 Malin Residence (Chemosphere) MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

14. Nightmares are usually constructed from aspects of the immidiate home environment • A monster hides under the bed. • A mask murderer comes to repair plumping • Fear of lost our basic security and confort generally in home environment • Like a Nightmare in Elm Street movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

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16. Sometimes perfect country houses have strange forces • The neighbours are suspicous, eccentric. • Like Amityville Horror (1975) (Stuart Rosenberg) • The idea of character is enhanced by two attic windows in the arch of the roof, either side of chimneys, and balcony banisters that is giving the illusion of eyes, nose, teeth and hair of a monster. movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

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18. GLASS HOUSE Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Chris Noth and Stellian SkarsgardDirector: Dan Sackheim Running Time: 106 mins movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

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20. Different housing features seen in Turkish movies: • Traditional houses represent poor but honest and reliable people • The modern houses like one family houses, waterfront houses or apartments represents the rich people those having ethical problems on daily life, honesty, movies about houses, housing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

21. Different images of housing seen in Turkish movies: • Religous images seen in traditional houses which represent the poor but honest and reliable people’ life. • Poor and very limited housing equipments, seen in the traditional and squatter houses. • The environment also very poor for these type of houses. • The buildings had generally bad looking and not maintained images. movies about houses, housing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

22. Different images of housing seen in Turkish movies: • Modern, technologically excellent and highly decorated housing equipments seen in the rich peoples houses. Sometimes rich people used old but very valuable objects in their houses. • Art pieces like paintings and sculptures seen in the rich people houses, piano is a very important music equipment for the rich people in Turkish movies. movies about houses, housing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

23. Different life styes seen in Turkish movies: • There are contradictory / dialectic approaches in the life styles of different social groups in the movies. • Traditional life style versus modern life style always took place in the movies. • Religios images or music, arabesque images or music represents the poor. Modern images and upto date (popular, rock, metal) music, new technologies, new cars, fashionable cloths and artifical and hypocriptic behaviors represent the rich. movies about houses, housing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

24. Mon Oncle (1958, USA) Starring: JacquesTATI(M. Hulot), Jean Pierre ZOLA (M. Arpel) Adrienne SERVANTINE (Madame Arpel)Director: JacquesTATI Decors: Henri Schmitt, Egunie Roman Running Time: 110 mins Awards: Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film Cannes Jury Special Prize (Jacques Tati) movies about houses, hosing environment and movies realized in housing spaces MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

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