The apartment plot urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / [electronic resource] :
Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. .
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Includes bibliographical references and 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.
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City and town life in motion pictures. Apartments in motion pictures. Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.