The Apartment Plot : Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 /

Looks at how the apartment figures in mid-20th century US film and television as a mechanism for discussing issues of class, race, urbanism, and sexuality.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Apartments in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie urbaine au cinema.
Appartements au cinema.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a philosophy of urbanism
  • A primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot
  • "We like our apartment" : the playboy indoors
  • The great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartment
  • The suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartment
  • Movin' on up : the African american apartment.

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