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SUMMARY:Rent Cultures Network Screening: The Ladykillers (1955)
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DESCRIPTION:A classic Ealing comedy opens onto questions of tenancy\, dome
 stic life\, social order\, and the strange politics of rented rooms.\n\nJo
 in the Rent Cultures Network for a screening of Alexander Mackendrick’s 
 The Ladykillers (1955)\, followed by a discussion with Dr Chloë Pieters a
 nd Professor Ushashi Dasgupta.\n\nThe film follows a group of criminals wh
 o take rooms in the house of Mrs Wilberforce\, an elderly landlady whose a
 pparently fragile home becomes the unlikely centre of a botched criminal p
 lot. With its tilting rooms\, railway noises\, suspicious lodgers\, and qu
 iet domestic stubbornness\, The Ladykillers is one of cinema’s great com
 edies of rented space.\n\nThis event will use the film as a starting point
  for thinking about landladies\, lodgers\, crime\, comedy\, and houses tha
 t seem always on the verge of falling apart. What kinds of stories gather 
 around rented rooms? Why does the figure of the landlady carry such comic 
 and social force? And what happens when the home is less a stable refuge t
 han a precarious\, noisy\, shared\, and contested space?\n\nDr Chloë Piet
 ers is River Farm Foundation Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in 
 History at St Edmund Hall\, University of Oxford. Her work examines family
 \, domestic life\, and the relationship between private households and the
  state in wartime and post-war Britain and Belgium.\n\nProfessor Ushashi D
 asgupta is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and 
 Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow of English at Pembroke College. Her rese
 arch explores nineteenth-century fiction\, tenancy\, architecture\, and do
 mestic space. Her first book\, Charles Dickens and the Properties of Ficti
 on: The Lodger World\, examines the literary imagination of rented rooms\,
  lodgings\, and boarding houses.
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LOCATION:Pembroke College - Pichette Auditorium\, Pichette Auditorium Pemb
 roke College St Aldates Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 1DW United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Chloë Pieters (St Edmund Hall\, Oxford)\, Ushashi Dasgupta (Pembr
 oke College\, Oxford)
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