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

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Tác giả: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0822392989

Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.43658209732 Motion pictures, radio, television

Thông tin xuất bản: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2010

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ID: 200749

 Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s, the apartment plot was not only key to films
  it also surfaced in TV shows, Broadway plays, literature, and comic strips, from The Honeymooners and The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Subways are for Sleeping and Apartment 3-G. By identifying the apartment plot as a film genre, Wojcik reveals affinities between movies generally viewed as belonging to such distinct genres as film noir, romantic comedy, and melodrama. She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a mid-twentieth-century urban discourse, showing how it offers a vision of home centered on values of community, visibility, contact, mobility, impermanence, and porousness that contrasts with views of home as private, stable, and family-based...
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