Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs
Building Hollywood S Ideal Communities
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-349-56711-9 (ISBN)
Description
Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.
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2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-56711-9 (9781349567119)
DOI
10.1057/9781137493286
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Stephen Rowley is Lecturer of Urban and Social Studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.