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Apartment Plot : Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apartments in motion pictures.
- City and town life in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages).
- Other Title:
- Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a philosophy of urbanismA primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot"We like our apartment" : the playboy indoorsThe great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartmentThe suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartmentMovin' on up : the African american apartment.
- Notes:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781478090144
- 1478090146
- OCLC:
- 709610722
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