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The apartment plot : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life in motion pictures.
- Apartments in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613251817
- 9781283251815
- 1283251817
- 9780822392989
- 0822392984
- OCLC:
- 709610722
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392989
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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