Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Luckhurst, Roger

Corridors: Passages of Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789140538)

Vendor: Roger Luckhurst
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Format: Hardcover
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Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Luckhurst, Roger

Corridors: Passages of Modernity

$42.00
Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Luckhurst, Roger

Corridors: Passages of Modernity

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building's infrastructure rather than architecture.

This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the "corridors of power," bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.

Author: Roger Luckhurst
ISBN-10: 1789140536
ISBN-13: 9781789140538
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.70w x 1.20d

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By Roger Luckhurst
By Roger Luckhurst
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Roger Luckhurst lives in a postwar utopian social housing estate in inner London and teaches at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is professor of modern literature in the School of Arts. He is the author of Zombies, also published by Reaktion Books, and wrote the British Film Institute Classics books on Alien and The Shining.

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