Wojcik Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Apartment Plot (eBook, PDF)

Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "e;apartment plot,"e; 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 viewed as belonging to such distinct genres as film noir, romantic comedy, and melodrama. She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a mid-twentieth-century urban discourse, showing how it offers a vision of home centered on values of community, visibility, contact, mobility, impermanence, and porousness that contrasts with views of home as private, stable, and family-based. Wojcik suggests that the apartment plot presents a philosophy of urbanism related to the theories of Jane Jacobs and Henri Lefebvre. Urban apartments were important spaces for negotiating gender, sexuality, race, and class in mid-twentieth-century America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822392989
• Artikelnr.: 54818954

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction: A Philosophy of Urbanism 1
1. A Primer in Urbanism: Rear Window's Archetypal Apartment Plot 47
2. "We Like Our Apartment": The Playboy Indoors 88
3. The Great Reprieve: Modernity, Femininity, and the Apartment 139
4. The Suburbs in the City: The Housewife and the Apartment 180
5. Movin' On Up: The African American Apartment 220
Epilogue: A New Philosophy for a New Century 267
Notes 279
Bibliography 289
Index 303