Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs
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.
| Autor: | Rowley, Stephen |
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| ISBN: | 9781137501615 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 22.10.2015 |
| Untertitel: | Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities |
| Schlagworte: | B Communication Cultural Studies Film History Film and TV History Film and Television Studies Media Studies Media and Communication Motion pictures and television Motion pictures—History Palgrave Literature Collection Performing Arts Screen Studies Sociology Sociology, Urban Urban & municipal planning Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) Urban Sociology Urban Studies/Sociology Urban communities Urban geography |
Stephen Rowley is Lecturer of Urban and Social Studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.