Main entry:

Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-

Title & Author:

The apartment plot : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.

Description:

xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) index.
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.

Summary:

Pamela Wojcik offers a new assessment of films such as 'Pillow Talk' & 'Rear Window' by identifying the 'apartment plot' as a distinct genre in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.

ISBN:

9780822347521
0822347520
9780822347736 (pbk.)
0822347733 (pbk.)

Subject:

City and town life in motion pictures.
Apartments in motion pictures.
Motion pictures United States History 20th century.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Appartements au cinéma.
Cinéma États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Performing Arts.
Motion pictures.
Wohnung
Stadtleben
Films.
Populaire cultuur.
Woningen.
Bühnenbild.
Film.
Pop-Kultur.
Staden i filmen.
Bostäder i filmen.
Film historia Förenta staterna 2000-talet.
Staden på film, USA.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272968
Call No.: BIB 206353
Status: Available