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Wojcik Pamela Robertson <1964-> |
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Titolo |
The apartment plot [[electronic resource] ] : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / / Pamela Robertson Wojcik |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham [NC], : Duke University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-25181-7 |
0-8223-9298-4 |
9786613251817 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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City and town life in motion pictures |
Apartments in motion pictures |
Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based on print version record |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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