{"id":7038,"date":"2026-02-27T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:16:15","slug":"the-cinematic-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/2026\/02\/27\/the-cinematic-home\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CINEMATIC HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABSTRACT BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/2026\/02\/25\/jane-barnwell\/\">JANE BARNWELL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This paper explores the concept of the cinematic home as a designed, narratively\u00a0active\u00a0and emotionally expressive space in film and television.\u00a0Drawing on research from\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Production Design &amp;\u00a0The Cinematic Home\u00a0(2022)<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, it\u00a0argues that domestic interiors are not neutral backdrops but key storytelling agents through which character, memory, class,\u00a0gender\u00a0and psychology are communicated. Foregrounding production design as a narrative discipline, the paper\u00a0employs\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Visual Concept Analysis<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a methodology\u00a0that traces the development of visual ideas across script, research, set construction, colour, texture and props, treating design as intentional and\u00a0concept-driven. Through close textual analysis informed by interviews with production designers, the paper\u00a0demonstrates\u00a0how homes on screen externalise interior states\u00a0and encode social meaning.\u00a0Particular attention\u00a0is given to memory, lived-in\u00a0space\u00a0and the gendered dynamics of domestic interiors, as well as distinctions between filmic and televisual homes.\u00a0Ultimately, the\u00a0paper reframes production design as a core storytelling practice that constructs emotional truth through space.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT BY\u00a0JANE BARNWELL This paper explores the concept of the cinematic home as a designed, narratively\u00a0active\u00a0and emotionally expressive space in film and television.\u00a0Drawing on research from\u00a0Production Design &amp;\u00a0The Cinematic Home\u00a0(2022), it\u00a0argues that domestic interiors are not neutral backdrops but key storytelling agents through which character, memory, class,\u00a0gender\u00a0and psychology are communicated. Foregrounding production design as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}