Pamela Robertson Wojcik

The Apartment Plot

Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347521
• ISBN-10: 0822347520
• Artikelnr.: 30364562

Autorenporträt

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction: A Philosophy of Urbanism 1
1. A Primer in Urbanism: Rear Window's Archetypal Apartment Plot 47
2. "We Like Our Apartment": The Playboy Indoors 88
3. The Great Reprieve: Modernity, Femininity, and the Apartment 139
4. The Suburbs in the City: The Housewife and the Apartment 180
5. Movin' On Up: The African American Apartment 220
Epilogue: A New Philosophy for a New Century 267
Notes 279
Bibliography 289
Index 303