The apartment plot urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.