The apartment plot
Subtitle: urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975
By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780822347521; 9780822347736
Subjects: Motion pictures; City and town life in motion pictures; Apartments in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-z302)  index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a philosophy of urbanism; title: A primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot; title: "We like our apartment" : the playboy indoors; title: The great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartment; title: The suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartment; title: Movin' on up : the African american apartment.