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

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PN1995.9.C513 W65 2010	Available	---

Description	xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-z302) index.
Contents	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.
Subject	City and town life in motion pictures.
	City and town life in motion pictures.
	Apartments in motion pictures.
	Apartments in motion pictures.
	Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Motion pictures.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
ISBN	9780822347521
	0822347520
	9780822347736 paperback
	0822347733 paperback