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Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs [electronic resource] : Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities / by Stephen Rowley.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Screening SpacesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: X, 272 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137493286
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 791.4309 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5
Online resources: In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
Item type: eBooks
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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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