ARGONAUT BOOKS

The first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country house architecture to nightmare scenes in horror films such as Alien and The Shining. Reviews One of the book's strengths is Luckhurst's appreciation that architectural spaces owe their emotional impact to context as much as to form: corridors may be sites of isolation and dread - he writes vividly about them as dystopian symbols of bureaucracy - but they can also be places for communication and encounter.TLS[an] ambitious and consistently informative cultural history of the corridor.LRBIt is ...Read More