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11%OFFPamela Robertson Wojcik - The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 - 9780822347736 - V9780822347736
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The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

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Description for The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 Paperback. Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device. Num Pages: 328 pages, 55 illustrations, incl. 23 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347736
SKU
V9780822347736
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About Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theater and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of Movie Acting: The Film Reader.

Reviews for The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
“Wojcik’s insightful analysis, supported by thorough research, contrasts privacy and community, sight and sound, urban and suburban, married and single life, white and African American neighborhoods, and upper- and lower-class milieus. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - S. R. Kozloff, Choice “With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history. She also offers dozens ... Read more

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