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Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs (1995) as evidence of a mid-
1990s fascination with this techno-cultural theme.^64 Impor-
tantly, though, Mitchell demonstrated the conceptual and
historical availability of architecture and its lessons for prob-
lems beyond architecture.
Other examples illustrate how architecture and the tools
of its historians offer new takes on existing themes. Dietrich
Neumann’s book Film Architecture (1999) explores the
cross-pollination of the two terms of his title over the lifespan
of modern fi lm. Steven Jacobs pushes this theme further in
his study The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred
Hitchcock (2007), where modern architecture and the Hitch-
cock fi lmography together consider the themes of psychology
and space along historical and critical lines, and within the
history of techniques of cinematic production.
A number of anthologies have, similarly explored ques-
tions of gender in architectural history: Sexuality and Space,
The Sex of Architecture and Stud, to name some 1990s
classics.^65
11 Jeffries apartment and courtyard, West 10th St, Greenwich
Village, New York, depicted in Rear Window, directed by Alfred
Hitchcock (1954). Production photograph.