ISBN:
9780822392989
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (342 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wojcik, Pamela Robertson The apartment plot
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wojcik, Pamela Robertson The apartment plot
DDC:
791.43/658209732
Keywords:
City and town life in motion pictures
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Apartments in motion pictures
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Motion pictures History 20th century
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Performing arts
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Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
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City and town life in motion pictures
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Apartments in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Electronic books
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USA
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Film
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Wohnung
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Geschichte 1945-1975
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289] - 302) and index
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