Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs [electronic resource] : Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities /
Rowley, Stephen.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Visions of community -- Movie towns -- Sitcom suburbs -- The bad suburb -- The fake town -- Constructing the movie town -- Deconstructing the movie town -- Conclusion: The perpetual suburb.
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.
Motion pictures—History.
Urban geography.
Motion pictures and television.
Sociology, Urban.
Communication.
Cultural studies.
Film History.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Screen Studies.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.